¹⁰ Your sacred cities^(A) have become a wasteland;
    even Zion is a wasteland, Jerusalem a desolation.^(B)

¹¹ Our holy and glorious temple,^(A) where our ancestors praised you,
    has been burned with fire,
    and all that we treasured^(B) lies in ruins.

⁶ They smashed all the carved^(A) paneling
    with their axes and hatchets.
⁷ They burned your sanctuary to the ground;
    they defiled^(B) the dwelling place^(C) of your Name.^(D)
8 They said in their hearts, “We will crush^(E) them completely!”
    They burned^(F) every place where God was worshiped in the land.