[As for] their choice ornaments, they employed them for pride, and they made of them images of their abominations; therefore have I made them uncleanness to them.

And I will turn away My face from them, and they shall defile My secret place, and shall go in to them unguardedly, and profane them.

And He said to them, Defile the house, and go out and fill the ways with dead bodies, and strike.

They have burned Your sanctuary with fire to the ground; they have profaned the habitation of Your name.

A Psalm of Asaph. O God, the heathen have come into Your inheritance; they have polluted Your holy temple; they have made Jerusalem a storehouse of fruits.

But you are they that have left Me, and forget My holy mountain, and prepare a table for the devil, and fill up the drink offering to Fortune.

Therefore I also will do to the house which is called by My name, in which you trust, and to the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I did to Shiloh.

JOD. The oppressor has stretched out his hand on all her desirable things, for she has seen the Gentiles entering into her sanctuary, [concerning] whom You commanded that they should not enter into Your congregation.

VAU. And He has scattered His tabernacle as a vine, He has marred His feast; the Lord has forgotten the feast and the Sabbath which He appointed in Zion, and in the fury of His wrath has vexed the king, priest, and prince.

ZAIN. The Lord has rejected His altar, He has cast off His sanctuary, He has broken by the hand of the enemy the wall of her palaces; they have uttered their voice in the house of the Lord as on a feast day.

And seeds shall spring up out of him, and they shall profane the sanctuary of strength, and they shall remove the perpetual [sacrifice], and make the abomination of desolation.

And they put forward false witnesses saying, "This man does not cease to speak blasphemous words against the holy place and the law;

for we have heard him saying that this Jesus the Nazarene will destroy this place and change the customs which Moses handed down to us."

Thanksgiving and beauty are before Him; holiness and majesty are in His sanctuary.

Seek the Lord, and be strengthened; seek His face continually.

Arise, O Lord, into Your rest; You, and the ark of Your holiness.

Son of man, behold I take from you the desire of your eyes by violence. You shall not lament, neither shall you weep.

One thing have I asked of the Lord, this will I earnestly seek; that I should dwell in the house of the Lord, all the days of my life, that I should behold the fair beauty of the Lord, and survey His temple.

For the end, A Psalm for the sons of Korah, concerning the winepresses. How lovely is Your tabernacle, O Lord of hosts!

And I will bring upon you My jealousy, and they shall deal with you in great wrath. They shall take away your nose and your ears, and shall cast down your remnant with the sword. They shall take your sons and your daughters, and fire shall devour your remnant.

And stone them with the stones of a multitude, and pierce them with their swords; they shall slay their sons and their daughters, and shall burn up their houses.

And I allowed My wrath to come to full, yet I kept [it] in, and did not utterly destroy them. I will pour it out on the children outside, and on the assembly of young men together; for man and woman shall be taken together, the old man with him that is full of days.

For death has come up through your windows, it has entered into our land, to destroy the infants outside, and the young men from the streets.

For thus says the Lord concerning the sons and daughters that are born in this place, and concerning their mothers that have born them, and their fathers that have begotten them in this land:

They shall die a grievous death. They shall not be lamented [over], nor buried; they shall be for an example on the face of the earth; and they shall be for the wild beasts of the land, and for the birds of the sky. They shall fall by the sword, and shall be consumed with famine.