5
It was like men in a thicket of trees,
wielding axes,(A)
6
then smashing all the carvings
with hatchets and picks.(B)
7
They set Your sanctuary on fire;
they utterly(a) desecrated
the dwelling place of Your name.(C)

Footnotes:

a. Psalm 74:7: Lit they to the ground

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