Psalm 74:7-9

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⁷They burned down your Holy Place.
    It was built to honor your name,
    but they pulled it down to the ground.
⁸The enemy decided to crush us completely.
    They burned every holy place^[a] in the country.
⁹We do not see any of our signs.^[b]
    There are no more prophets.
    And no one knows how long this will last.

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Footnotes

Psalm 74:8 holy place Or “El meeting place.” This means every place where people went to meet with God.
Psalm 74:9 signs These were probably signal fires that people burned as a way of passing messages from one town to the next. In war, this was a way people showed other towns that the enemy had not yet destroyed their own town.