Psalm 74:4–8

4 Your adversaries roared in the meeting place

where you met with us.B

They set up their emblems as signs.b

5 It was like men in a thicket of trees,

wielding axes,c

6 then smashing all the carvings

with hatchets and picks.d

7 They set your sanctuary on fire;

they utterlyC desecrated

the dwelling place of your name.e

8 They said in their hearts,

“Let’s oppress them relentlessly.”

They burned every place throughout the land

where God met with us.D,f