4. Your foes have roared in the midst of your meeting place; they set up their own signs for signs.
5. They were like those who swing axesin a forest of trees.
6. And all its carved woodthey broke down with hatchets and hammers.
7. They set your sanctuary on fire;they profaned the dwelling place of your name,bringing it down to the ground.
8. They said to themselves, “We will utterly subdue them”;they burned all the meeting places of God in the land.
9. We do not see our signs; there is no longer any prophet,and there is none among us who knows how long.
10. How long, O God, is the foe to scoff?Is the enemy to revile your name forever?
11. Why do you hold back your hand, your right hand?Take it from the fold of your garment and destroy them!
12. Yet God my King is from of old,working salvation in the midst of the earth.
13. You divided the sea by your might;you broke the heads of the sea monsters on the waters.
14. You crushed the heads of Leviathan;you gave him as food for the creatures of the wilderness.