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Turn your steps toward[a] these pathetic ruins.
    The enemy has destroyed everything in the holy temple.

Your opponents have roared inside your meeting place.
    They have set up their own emblems as symbols.
        Starting from its entrance, they hacked away
            like a woodcutter in a forest.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 74:3 Hebrew meaning uncertain.
  2. Psalm 74:5 Hebrew meaning of this verse uncertain.

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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