7. They have set on fire thy sanctuary, they have profaned the habitation of thy name to the ground.
8. They said in their heart, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all ·God's places of assembly in the land.
9. We see not our signs; there is no more any prophet, neither is there among us any that knoweth how long.
10. How long, O God shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy contemn thy name for ever?
11. Why withdrawest thou thy hand, and thy right hand? pluck it out of thy bosom: consume them.