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)

¹⁸ For a little while^(A) your people possessed your holy place,
    but now our enemies have trampled^(B) down your sanctuary.^(C)

¹¹ Our holy and glorious temple,^(A) where our ancestors praised you,
    has been burned with fire,
    and all that we treasured^(B) lies in ruins.

⁷ The Lord has rejected his altar
    and abandoned his sanctuary.^(A)
He has given the walls of her palaces^(B)
    into the hands of the enemy;
they have raised a shout in the house of the Lord
    as on the day of an appointed festival.^(C)