⁴ Your foes roared^(B) in the place where you met with us;
    they set up their standards^(C) as signs.
⁵ They behaved like men wielding axes
    to cut through a thicket of trees.^(D)
6 They smashed all the carved^(E) paneling
    with their axes and hatchets.
⁷ They burned your sanctuary to the ground;
    they defiled^(F) the dwelling place^(G) of your Name.^(H)
8 They said in their hearts, “We will crush^(I) them completely!”
    They burned^(J) every place where God was worshiped in the land.

¹⁰ The enemy laid hands
    on all her treasures;^(A)
she saw pagan nations
    enter her sanctuary^(B)—
those you had forbidden^(C)
    to enter your assembly.