Psa 74:3-7, 20, 106:45, Jer 3:17, 17:12, Lam 1:10, 2:6-7, 20, Eze 7:20-22 | ESV | STEP | Direct your steps to the perpetual ruins ; the enemy has destroyed everything in the sanctuary !

Psalms 74:3-7

3 Direct your steps to ^athe perpetual ruins;
the enemy has destroyed everything in the sanctuary!
4 Your foes have ^broared in the midst of your meeting place;
^cthey set up their ^down signs for ^esigns.
5 They were like those who swing ^faxes
in a forest of trees. ^{▼▼The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain}
6 And all its ^hcarved wood
they broke down with hatchets and hammers.
7 They ⁱset your sanctuary on fire;
they ^jprofaned ^kthe dwelling place of your name,
bringing it down to the ground.

Psalms 74:20

20 Have regard for ^lthe covenant,
for ^mthe dark places of the land are full of the habitations of violence.

Psalms 106:45

45 For their sake he ⁿremembered his covenant,
and ^orelented according to ^pthe abundance of his steadfast love.

Jeremiah 3:17

17 At that time Jerusalem shall be called the throne of the Lord, ^qand all nations shall gather to it, ^rto the presence of the Lord in Jerusalem, and they shall no more stubbornly follow their own evil heart.

Jeremiah 17:12

12 A glorious throne set on high from the beginning
is the place of our sanctuary.

Lamentations 1:10

10 The enemy has stretched out his hands
over all her ^sprecious things;
for she has seen ^tthe nations
enter her sanctuary,
those whom you ^uforbade
to enter your congregation.

Lamentations 2:6-7

6 He has laid waste his booth like a garden,
laid in ruins ^vhis meeting place;
^wthe Lord has made Zion forget
festival and ^xSabbath,
and in his fierce indignation has spurned king and priest.
7 ^yThe Lord has scorned his altar,
^zdisowned his sanctuary;
^aahe has delivered into the hand of the enemy
the walls of her palaces;
^abthey raised a clamor in the house of the Lord
as on the day of festival.

Lamentations 2:20

20 Look, O Lord, and see!
^acWith whom have you dealt thus?
^adShould women eat the fruit of their womb,
the children of ^aetheir tender care?
Should ^afpriest and prophet be killed
in the sanctuary of the Lord?

Ezekiel 7:20-22

20 ^agHis beautiful ornament they used for pride, and ^ahthey made their abominable images and their detestable things of it. Therefore ^aiI make it an unclean thing to them. 21 And I will give it into the hands of ^ajforeigners for prey, ^akand to the wicked of the earth for spoil, and ^althey shall profane it. 22 I will turn my face from them, and ^amthey shall profane my treasured ^{▼▼Or secret} place. Robbers shall enter ^aoand profane it.