¹² who said, “Let us take the pastures of God
    for our own possession.”^(A)

⁴ They say, “Come, let us wipe them out as a nation;
    let the name of Israel be remembered no more.”^(A)

⁷ They set your sanctuary on fire;
    they desecrated the dwelling place of your name,
    bringing it to the ground.^(A)
8 They said to themselves, “We will utterly subdue them”;
    they burned all the meeting places of God in the land.^(B)