^{2 Ref} Keep in mind your band of worshippers, for whom you gave payment in the days which are past, whom you took for yourself as the people of your heritage; even this mountain of Zion, which has been your resting-place.

^{3 Ref} Go up and see the unending destruction; all the evil which your haters have done in the holy place;

^{4 Ref} Sending out their voices like lions among your worshippers; they have put up their signs to be seen.

^{5 Ref} They are cutting down, like a man whose blade is lifted up against the thick trees.

^{6 Ref} Your doors are broken down with hammers and iron blades.

^{7 Ref} They have put on fire your holy place; they have made the place of your name unclean, pulling it down to the earth.