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Remember your people, whom you acquired of old,
    the tribe you redeemed as your own heritage,
    Mount Zion where you dwell.(A)
Direct your steps toward the utter destruction,
    everything the enemy laid waste in the sanctuary.
Your foes roared triumphantly in the place of your assembly;
    they set up their own tokens of victory.
They hacked away like a forester gathering boughs,
    swinging his ax in a thicket of trees.
They smashed all its engraved work,
    struck it with ax and pick.
They set your sanctuary on fire,
    profaned your name’s abode by razing it to the ground.(B)

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Remember the nation you purchased(A) long ago,(B)
    the people of your inheritance,(C) whom you redeemed(D)
    Mount Zion,(E) where you dwelt.(F)
Turn your steps toward these everlasting ruins,(G)
    all this destruction the enemy has brought on the sanctuary.

Your foes roared(H) in the place where you met with us;
    they set up their standards(I) as signs.
They behaved like men wielding axes
    to cut through a thicket of trees.(J)
They smashed all the carved(K) paneling
    with their axes and hatchets.
They burned your sanctuary to the ground;
    they defiled(L) the dwelling place(M) of your Name.(N)

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