They have cast fire into thy sanctuary, they have defiled by casting down the dwelling place of thy name to the ground.

The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!

And I said, This is my infirmity: but I will remember the years of the right hand of the most High.

Thou hast made his glory to cease, and cast his throne down to the ground.

And the fortress of the high fort of thy walls shall he bring down, lay low, and bring to the ground, even to the dust.

For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead.

I said in my haste, All men are liars.

Jesus answered and said unto him, What I do thou knowest not now; but thou shalt know hereafter.

My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips. Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie unto David. His seed shall endure for ever, and his throne as the sun before me.

Therefore I have profaned the princes of the sanctuary, and have given Jacob to the curse, and Israel to reproaches.