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        Starting from its entrance, they hacked away
            like a woodcutter in a forest.[a]
They smashed all its carved paneling with axes and hatchets.
They burned your holy place to the ground.
    They dishonored the place where you live among us.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 74:5 Hebrew meaning of this verse uncertain.

They behaved like men wielding axes
    to cut through a thicket of trees.(A)
They smashed all the carved(B) paneling
    with their axes and hatchets.
They burned your sanctuary to the ground;
    they defiled(C) the dwelling place(D) of your Name.(E)

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