6. And then all the carved wood of the Holy Place they broke down with hatchets and hammers.
7. They have set Your sanctuary on fire; they have profaned the dwelling place of Your Name by casting it to the ground.
8. They said in their hearts, Let us make havoc [of such places] altogether. They have burned up all God's meetinghouses in the land.
9. We do not see our symbols; there is no longer any prophet, neither does any among us know for how long.
10. O God, how long is the adversary to scoff and reproach? Is the enemy to blaspheme and revile Your name forever?
11. Why do You hold back Your hand, even Your right hand? Draw it out of Your bosom and consume them [make an end of them]!
12. Yet God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth.
13. You did divide the [Red] Sea by Your might; You broke the heads of the [Egyptian] dragons in the waters. [Exod. 14:21.]
14. You crushed the heads of Leviathan (Egypt); You did give him as food for the creatures inhabiting the wilderness.