^3 [a]Turn Your footsteps toward the ^(A)perpetual ruins;
The enemy ^(B)has damaged everything within the sanctuary.
⁴ Your adversaries have ^(C)roared in the midst of Your meeting place;
They have set up their ^(D)own ^[b]standards ^(E)for signs.
⁵ It seems as if one had lifted up
His ^[c](F)axe in a ^[d]forest of trees.
⁶ And now ^[e]all its ^(G)carved work
They smash with hatchet and ^[f]hammers.
⁷ They have ^[g](H)burned Your sanctuary ^[h]to the ground;
They have ^(I)defiled the dwelling place of Your name.
⁸ They ^(J)said in their heart, “Let us ^[i]completely ^[j]subdue them.”
They have burned all the meeting places of God in the land.
⁹ We do not see our ^(K)signs;
There is ^(L)no longer any prophet,
Nor is there any among us who knows ^(M)how long.
¹⁰ How long, O God, will the adversary ^(N)revile,
And the enemy ^(O)spurn Your name forever?

79 O God, the ^(A)nations have ^[a]invaded ^(B)Your inheritance;
They have defiled Your ^(C)holy temple;
They have ^(D)laid Jerusalem in ruins.
² They have given the ^(E)dead bodies of Your servants for food to the birds of the heavens,
The flesh of Your godly ones to the beasts of the earth.
³ They have poured out their blood like water round about Jerusalem;
And there was ^(F)no one to bury them.
⁴ We have become a ^(G)reproach to our neighbors,
A scoffing and derision to those around us.