Psa 74:3-7 | NETfull | STEP | Hurry and look at the permanent ruins, and all the damage the enemy has done to the temple!

Psalms 74:3-7

3 Hurry and look ^{▼▼ Heb “lift up your steps to,” which may mean “run, hurry.”} at the permanent ruins,
and all the damage the enemy has done to the temple! ^{▼▼ Heb “everything [the] enemy has damaged in the holy place.”}
4 Your enemies roar ^{▼▼ This verb is often used of a lion’s roar, so the psalmist may be comparing the enemy to a raging, devouring lion.} in the middle of your sanctuary; ^{▼▼ Heb “your meeting place.”}
they set up their battle flags. ^{▼▼ Heb “they set up their banners [as] banners.” The Hebrew noun אוֹת (’ot, “sign”) here refers to the enemy army’s battle flags and banners (see Num 2:12).}
5 They invade like lumberjacks
swinging their axes in a thick forest. ^{▼▼ Heb “it is known like one bringing upwards, in a thicket of wood, axes.” The Babylonian invaders destroyed the woodwork in the temple.}
6 And now ^{▼▼ This is the reading of the Qere (marginal reading). The Kethib (consonantal text) has “and a time.”} they are tearing down ^{▼▼ The imperfect verbal form vividly describes the act as underway.} all its engravings ^{▼▼ Heb “its engravings together.”}
with axes ^{▼▼ This Hebrew noun occurs only here in the OT (see H. R. Cohen, Biblical Hapax Legomena [SBLDS], 49–50).} and crowbars. ^{▼▼ This Hebrew noun occurs only here in the OT. An Akkadian cognate refers to a “pickaxe” (cf. NEB “hatchet and pick”; NIV “axes and hatchets”; NRSV “hatchets and hammers”).}
7 They set your sanctuary on fire;
they desecrate your dwelling place by knocking it to the ground. ^{▼▼ Heb “to the ground they desecrate the dwelling place of your name.”}