Psa 74:3-7, 79:1-2, Isa 6:11-12, 24:10-12, 64:10, Jer 7:34, 25:18 | 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 79:1-2

How Long, O Lord?

A Psalm of ^lAsaph.

1 O God, ^mthe nations have come into your ⁿinheritance;
they have defiled your ^oholy temple;
they have ^plaid Jerusalem in ruins.
2 They have given ^qthe bodies of your servants
to the birds of the heavens for food,
the flesh of your ^rfaithful to ^sthe beasts of the earth.

Isaiah 6:11-12

11 Then I said, ^t“How long, O Lord?”
And he said:
“Until ^ucities lie waste
without inhabitant,
and houses without people,
and the land is a desolate waste,
12 and the Lord removes people far away,
and the forsaken places are many in the midst of the land.

Isaiah 24:10-12

10 ^vThe wasted city is broken down;
^wevery house is shut up so that none can enter.
11 ^xThere is an outcry in the streets for lack of wine;
^yall joy has grown dark;
the gladness of the earth is banished.
12 Desolation is left in the city;
the gates are battered into ruins.

Isaiah 64:10

10 ^zYour holy cities have become a wilderness;
Zion has become a wilderness,
Jerusalem a desolation.

Jeremiah 7:34

34 ^aaAnd I will silence in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, ^abfor the land shall become a waste.

Jeremiah 25:18

18 ^acJerusalem and the cities of Judah, its kings and officials, ^adto make them a desolation and a waste, a hissing and a curse, as at this day;