Psalm 74:3–11

3  Direct your steps to athe perpetual ruins;

the enemy has destroyed everything in the sanctuary!

4  Your foes have broared in the midst of your meeting place;

cthey set up their down signs for esigns.

5  They were like those who swing faxes

in a forest of trees.2

6  And all its gcarved wood

they broke down with hatchets and hammers.

7  They hset your sanctuary on fire;

they iprofaned jthe dwelling place of your name,

bringing it down to the ground.

8  They ksaid to themselves, “We will utterly subdue them”;

they burned all the meeting places of God in the land.

9  We do not see our lsigns;

mthere is no longer any prophet,

and there is none among us who knows how long.

10  How long, O God, nis the foe to scoff?

Is the enemy to revile your name forever?

11  Why odo you hold back your hand, your right hand?

Take it from the fold of your garment3 and destroy them!