³ Make Your way^[a] to the everlasting ruins,
to all that the enemy has destroyed in the sanctuary.^(A)
4 Your adversaries roared in the meeting place
where You met with us.^[b]
They set up their emblems as signs.^(B)
5 It was like men in a thicket of trees,
wielding axes,^(C)
6 then smashing all the carvings
with hatchets and picks.^(D)
7 They set Your sanctuary on fire;
they utterly^[c] desecrated
the dwelling place of Your name.^(E)

¹¹ Our holy and beautiful^[a] temple,
where our fathers praised You,
has been burned with fire,
and all that was dear to us lies in ruins.^(A)