Psalm 74:3-10

New International Version

³Turn your steps toward these everlasting ruins,^(A)
all this destruction the enemy has brought on the sanctuary.

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

⁹We are given no signs from God;^(K)
    no prophets^(L) are left,
    and none of us knows how long this will be.
¹⁰How long^(M) will the enemy mock^(N) you, God?
    Will the foe revile^(O) your name forever?

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Psalm 79:1-4

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Psalm 79

A psalm of Asaph.

¹O God, the nations have invaded your inheritance;^(A)
    they have defiled^(B) your holy temple,
    they have reduced Jerusalem to rubble.^(C)
²They have left the dead bodies of your servants
    as food for the birds of the sky,^(D)
    the flesh of your own people for the animals of the wild.^(E)
³They have poured out blood like water
    all around Jerusalem,
    and there is no one to bury^(F) the dead.^(G)
⁴We are objects of contempt to our neighbors,
    of scorn^(H) and derision to those around us.^(I)

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Ezekiel 22:4

New International Version

⁴you have become guilty because of the blood you have shed^(A) and have become defiled by the idols you have made. You have brought your days to a close, and the end of your years has come.^(B) Therefore I will make you an object of scorn^(C) to the nations and a laughingstock to all the countries.^(D)

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