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.