Make your way[a] to the perpetual ruins,
to all that the enemy has destroyed in the sanctuary.(A)
Your adversaries roared in the meeting place
where you met with us.[b]
They set up their emblems as signs.(B)
It was like men in a thicket of trees,
wielding axes,(C)
then smashing all the carvings
with hatchets and picks.(D)
They set your sanctuary on fire;
they utterly[c] desecrated
the dwelling place of your name.(E)

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Footnotes

  1. 74:3 Lit Lift up your steps
  2. 74:4 Lit in your meeting place
  3. 74:7 Lit they to the ground

11 Our holy and beautiful[a] temple,
where our ancestors praised you,
has been burned down,
and all that was dear to us lies in ruins.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 64:11 Or glorious; Is 60:7

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