2Remember your congregation which you have purchased from the beginning; you did ransom the rod of your inheritance; this mount Sion wherein you have lived.
3Lift up your hands against their pride continually; because of all that the enemy has done wickedly in your holy places.
4And they that hate you have boasted in the midst of your 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.
7They have burnt your sanctuary with fire to the ground; they have profaned the habitation of your name.
8They have said in their heart, even all their kindred together, Come, let us abolish the feasts of the Lord from the earth.
9We have not seen our signs; there is no longer a prophet; and God will not know us any more.
Psalms 73
Psalms 73:2-9