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

⁸ The high places^(A) of wickedness^[a](B) will be destroyed—
    it is the sin of Israel.
Thorns^(C) and thistles will grow up
    and cover their altars.^(D)
Then they will say to the mountains, “Cover us!”^(E)
    and to the hills, “Fall on us!”^(F)