2Remember thy congregation which thou hast purchased from the beginning; thou didst ransom the rod of thine inheritance; this mount Sion wherein thou hast dwelt.
3Lift up thine hands against their pride continually; because of all that the enemy has done wickedly in thy holy places.
4And they that hate thee have boasted in the midst of thy feast; they have set up their standards for signs,
5ignorantly as it were in the entrance above;
6they cut down its doors at once with axes as in a wood of trees; they have broken it down with hatchet and stone cutter.