Direct your steps to (A)the perpetual ruins;
    the enemy has destroyed everything in the sanctuary!

Your foes have (B)roared in the midst of your meeting place;
    (C)they set up their (D)own signs for (E)signs.
They were like those who swing (F)axes
    in a forest of trees.[a]
And all its (G)carved wood
    they broke down with hatchets and hammers.
They (H)set your sanctuary on fire;
    they (I)profaned (J)the dwelling place of your name,
    bringing it down to the ground.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 74:5 The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain

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