4. In the midst of Your Holy Place Your enemies have roared [with their battle cry]; they set up their own [idol] emblems for signs [of victory].
5. They seemed like men who lifted up axes upon a thicket of trees to make themselves a record.
6. And then all the carved wood of the Holy Place they broke down with hatchets and hammers.
7. They have set Your sanctuary on fire; they have profaned the dwelling place of Your Name by casting it to the ground.
8. They said in their hearts, Let us make havoc [of such places] altogether. They have burned up all God's meetinghouses in the land.