You have renounced the covenant with your servant and have defiled his crown in the dust.
in my alarm I said, “Everyone is a liar.”
The enemy pursues me, he crushes me to the ground; he makes me dwell in the darkness like those long dead.
You made us retreat before the enemy, and our adversaries have plundered us.
You have shown your people desperate times; you have given us wine that makes us stagger.
They burned your sanctuary to the ground; they defiled the dwelling place of your Name.
Then I thought, “To this I will appeal: the years when the Most High stretched out his right hand.
You have put an end to his splendor and cast his throne to the ground.
He will bring down your high fortified walls and lay them low; he will bring them down to the ground, to the very dust.
So I disgraced the dignitaries of your temple; I consigned Jacob to destruction and Israel to scorn.
The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned!
Jesus replied, “You do not realize now what I am doing, but later you will understand.”