And this house will become [a](A)a heap of ruins; everyone who passes by will be astonished and hiss and say, ‘(B)Why has the Lord done thus to this land and to this house?’

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  1. 1 Kings 9:8 Heb high

This temple will become a heap of rubble. All[a] who pass by will be appalled(A) and will scoff and say, ‘Why has the Lord done such a thing to this land and to this temple?’(B)

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  1. 1 Kings 9:8 See some Septuagint manuscripts, Old Latin, Syriac, Arabic and Targum; Hebrew And though this temple is now imposing, all

19 Then (A)they burned the house of God and broke down the wall of Jerusalem, and burned all its fortified buildings with fire and destroyed all its valuable articles.

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19 They set fire(A) to God’s temple(B) and broke down the wall(C) of Jerusalem; they burned all the palaces and destroyed(D) everything of value there.(E)

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[a]Turn Your footsteps toward the (A)perpetual ruins;
The enemy (B)has damaged everything within the sanctuary.
Your adversaries have (C)roared in the midst of Your meeting place;
They have set up their (D)own [b]standards (E)for signs.
It seems as if one had lifted up
His [c](F)axe in a [d]forest of trees.
And now [e]all its (G)carved work
They smash with hatchet and [f]hammers.
They have [g](H)burned Your sanctuary [h]to the ground;
They have (I)defiled the dwelling place of Your name.

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  1. Psalm 74:3 Lit Lift up
  2. Psalm 74:4 Lit signs
  3. Psalm 74:5 Lit axes
  4. Psalm 74:5 Lit thicket
  5. Psalm 74:6 Lit altogether
  6. Psalm 74:6 Or axes
  7. Psalm 74:7 Lit set on fire
  8. Psalm 74:7 Or To the ground they...

Turn your steps toward these everlasting ruins,(A)
    all this destruction the enemy has brought on the sanctuary.

Your foes roared(B) in the place where you met with us;
    they set up their standards(C) as signs.
They behaved like men wielding axes
    to cut through a thicket of trees.(D)
They smashed all the carved(E) paneling
    with their axes and hatchets.
They burned your sanctuary to the ground;
    they defiled(F) the dwelling place(G) of your Name.(H)

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