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Using axes and hatchets,
    they smashed the carved panels inside.
They burned down your Holy Place.
    It was built to honor your name,
    but they pulled it down to the ground.
The enemy decided to crush us completely.
    They burned every holy place[a] in the country.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 74:8 holy place Or “El meeting place.” This means every place where people went to meet with God.

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

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