5 like men wielding axes in a thicket of trees 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.
Psalms 74:5–7
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39 You have renounced the covenant with Your servant and sullied his crown in the dust. 40 You have broken down all his walls; You have reduced his strongholds to rubble. 41 All who pass by plunder him; he has become a reproach to his neighbors.
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3 Maccabees 2:17–19
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