Psalms 74:4-8

⁴Like lions your enemies roared through your house, replacing our symbols by signs of their own,

⁵hacking, like woodsmen who lift axes on thickets of trees,

⁶smashing with hatchets and hammers all of its carved work together.

⁷They have set your temple on fire, to the very ground they have outraged the place where lives your name.

⁸They have said in their heart, “Let us utterly crush them.” They have burned all the houses of God in the land.