¹⁸ Your holy people possessed [it] but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down your sanctuary.

³ Lift up your feet to the perpetual ruins, All the evil that the enemy has done in the sanctuary.

⁴ Your adversaries have roared in the midst of your assembly. They have set up their standards as signs.

⁵ They behaved like men wielding axes, Cutting through a thicket of trees.

⁶ Now all its carved work They break down with hatchet and hammers.

⁷ They have burned your sanctuary to the ground. They have profaned the dwelling-place of your Name.

² Leave out the court which is outside of the temple, and don't measure it, for it has been given to the gentiles. They will tread the holy city under foot for forty-two months.

⁹ But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God's own possession, that you may show forth the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:

² But he answered them, "Don't you see all of these things? Most assuredly I tell you, there will not be left here one stone on another, that will not be thrown down."

²⁴ His power shall be mighty, but not by his own power; and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper and do [his pleasure]; and he shall destroy the mighty ones and the holy people.

¹ How is the gold become dim! [how] is the most pure gold changed! The stones of the sanctuary are poured out at the head of every street.

¹⁰ The adversary has spread out his hand on all her pleasant things: For she has seen that the nations are entered into her sanctuary, Concerning whom you did command that they should not enter into your assembly.

¹¹ Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised you, is burned with fire; and all our pleasant places are laid waste.

¹² Will you refrain yourself for these things, Yahweh? will you hold your peace, and afflict us very sore?

¹² They shall call them The holy people, The redeemed of Yahweh: and you shall be called Sought out, A city not forsaken.

¹⁹ and to make you high above all nations that he has made, in praise, and in name, and in honor; and that you may be a holy people to Yahweh your God, as he has spoken.

⁶ For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God: Yahweh your God has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.

⁴ 'You have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles' wings, and brought you to myself.

⁵ Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice, and keep my covenant, then you shall be my own possession from among all peoples; for all the earth is mine;

⁶ and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation.' These are the words which you shall speak to the children of Israel."