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Direct now your steps[a] to the endless ruins,
    toward the sanctuary destroyed by the enemy.
Your foes exulted triumphantly in the place of your assembly
    and set up their memorial emblems.
They set upon it with their axes
    as if it were a thicket of trees.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 74:3 The psalmist begs the Lord to hasten (direct . . . steps) to restore the sanctuary that the pagans have destroyed.