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

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

^{5 Ref} They behaved like men wielding axes, Cutting through a thicket of trees.

^{6 Ref} Now all its carved work They break down with hatchet and hammers.

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

^{8 Ref} They said in their heart, "We will crush them completely." They have burned up all the places in the land where God was worshiped.

^{9 Ref} We see no miraculous signs. There is no longer any prophet, Neither is there among us anyone who knows how long.

^{10 Ref} How long, God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy blaspheme your name forever?

^{11 Ref} Why do you draw back your hand, even your right hand? Take it out of your pocket and consume them!