5. as if it had been issued from on high; yet they did not understand. As in a forest of chopped wood,
6. they have cut down the entrances themselves. With axe and hatchet, they have brought it down.
7. They have set fire to your Sanctuary. They have polluted the tabernacle of your name on earth.
8. They have said in their heart, the whole group of them together: "Let us cause all the feast days of God to cease from the land.
9. We have not seen our proof; there is now no prophet. And he will no longer know us."
10. How long, O God, will the enemy place blame? Is the adversary to provoke your name until the end?
11. Why do you turn your hand away, even your right hand, from the midst of your sinews, until the end?