You have repudiated your covenant with your servant; you have thrown his crown to the ground.
I rashly declared, “All men are liars.”
Certainly my enemies chase me. They smash me into the ground. They force me to live in dark regions, like those who have been dead for ages.
You made us retreat from the enemy. Those who hate us take whatever they want from us.
You have made your people experience hard times; you have made us drink intoxicating wine.
They set your sanctuary on fire; they desecrate your dwelling place by knocking it to the ground.
Then I said, “I am sickened by the thought that the sovereign One might become inactive.
You have brought to an end his splendor, and have knocked his throne to the ground.
The fortified city (along with the very tops of your walls) he will knock down, he will bring it down, he will throw it down to the dusty ground.
So I defiled your holy princes, and handed Jacob over to destruction, and subjected Israel to humiliating abuse.”
The crown has fallen from our head; woe to us, for we have sinned!
Jesus replied, “You do not understand what I am doing now, but you will understand after these things.”