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They set your sanctuary on fire,
    profaned your name’s abode by razing it to the ground.(A)
They said in their hearts, “We will destroy them all!
    Burn all the assembly-places of God in the land!”
[a]Even so we have seen no signs for us,
    there is no prophet any more,(B)
    no one among us who knows for how long.

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Footnotes

  1. 74:9 Even so we have seen no signs…: ancients often asked prophets to say for how long a divine punishment was to last, cf. 2 Sm 24:13. Here no prophet has arisen to indicate the duration.

They burned your sanctuary to the ground;
    they defiled(A) the dwelling place(B) of your Name.(C)
They said in their hearts, “We will crush(D) them completely!”
    They burned(E) every place where God was worshiped in the land.

We are given no signs from God;(F)
    no prophets(G) are left,
    and none of us knows how long this will be.

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