6 and smashing all the carvings with hatchets and picks. 7 They have burned Your sanctuary to the ground; they have defiled the dwelling place of Your Name. 8 They said in their hearts, “We will crush them completely.” They burned down every place where God met us in the land.
Psalms 74:6–8
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