⁶ They hacked up all the beautifully carved items,
    smashed them to splinters with their axes and hammers.
⁷ They have burned Your sanctuary to the ground;
    they have desecrated the place where Your holy name lived in honor;
⁸ They have plotted in their hearts, “We will crush them and bring them to their knees!”
    Then they scorched all of the places in the land where the True God met His people.