Yet you have battered us, leaving us a heap of ruins overrun by wild dogs; you have covered us with darkness.

Yet God will make you a permanent heap of ruins. He will scoop you up and remove you from your home; he will uproot you from the land of the living. (Selah)

Surely you put them in slippery places; you bring them down to ruin.

Hurry and look at the permanent ruins, and all the damage the enemy has done to the temple!

A psalm of Asaph. O God, foreigners have invaded your chosen land; they have polluted your holy temple and turned Jerusalem into a heap of ruins.

The wild boars of the forest ruin it; the insects of the field feed on it.

You have broken down all his walls; you have made his strongholds a heap of ruins.

I am like an owl in the wilderness; I am like a screech owl among the ruins.

Indeed, your servants take delight in her stones, and feel compassion for the dust of her ruins.

May his children roam around begging, asking for handouts as they leave their ruined home!

The enemy's cities have been reduced to permanent ruins; you destroyed their cities; all memory of the enemies has perished.