You have renounced the covenant with your servant; you have defiled his crown in the dust.
The crown has fallen from our head; woe to us, for we have sinned!
They set your sanctuary on fire; they profaned the dwelling place of your name, bringing it down to the ground.
Jesus answered him, “What I am doing you do not understand now, but afterward you will understand.”
Therefore I will profane the princes of the sanctuary, and deliver Jacob to utter destruction and Israel to reviling.
And the high fortifications of his walls he will bring down, lay low, and cast to the ground, to the dust.
For the enemy has pursued my soul; he has crushed my life to the ground; he has made me sit in darkness like those long dead.
I said in my alarm, “All mankind are liars.”
You have made his splendor to cease and cast his throne to the ground.
I will not violate my covenant or alter the word that went forth from my lips. Once for all I have sworn by my holiness; I will not lie to David. His offspring shall endure forever, his throne as long as the sun before me.
Then I said, “I will appeal to this, to the years of the right hand of the Most High.”
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