1. Why have you abandoned us like this, O God?Will you be angry with your own people for ever?
2. Remember your people, whom you chose for yourself long ago,whom you brought out of slavery to be your own tribe.Remember Mount Zion, where once you lived.
3. Walk over these total ruins;our enemies have destroyed everything in the Temple.
4. Your enemies have shouted in triumph in your Temple;they have placed their flags there as signs of victory.
5. They looked like woodmencutting down trees with their axes.
6. They smashed all the wooden panelswith their axes and sledgehammers.