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Walk over these total ruins;
    our enemies have destroyed everything in the Temple.

Your enemies have shouted in triumph in your Temple;
    they have placed their flags there as signs of victory.
They looked like woodsmen
    cutting down trees with their axes.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 74:5 Verse 5 in Hebrew is unclear.

Turn your steps toward these everlasting ruins,(A)
    all this destruction the enemy has brought on the sanctuary.

Your foes roared(B) in the place where you met with us;
    they set up their standards(C) as signs.
They behaved like men wielding axes
    to cut through a thicket of trees.(D)

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Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations; even all that the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary.

Thine enemies roar in the midst of thy congregations; they set up their ensigns for signs.

A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees.

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