Your adversaries have (A)roared in the midst of Your meeting place;
They have set up their (B)own signs as (C)signs.
It [a]seems like one bringing up
His (D)axe into a [b]forest of trees.
And now they break down [c]all its (E)carved work
With axe and hammers.
They have [d](F)burned Your sanctuary [e]to the ground;
They have (G)defiled the dwelling place of Your name.
They (H)said in their heart, “Let’s [f]completely [g]subdue them.”
They have burned all the meeting places of God in the land.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 74:5 Lit is known as
  2. Psalm 74:5 Lit thicket
  3. Psalm 74:6 Lit altogether
  4. Psalm 74:7 Lit set on fire
  5. Psalm 74:7 Or To the ground they...
  6. Psalm 74:8 Lit altogether
  7. Psalm 74:8 Or oppress

10 Your (A)holy cities have become a (B)wilderness,
Zion has become a wilderness,
Jerusalem a desolation.
11 Our holy and beautiful (C)house,
Where our fathers praised You,
Has been burned by fire;
And (D)all our precious things have become a ruin.

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51 (A)We are ashamed because we have heard rebuke;
Disgrace has covered our faces,
Because (B)strangers have entered
The holy places of the Lords house.

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