Commentaries and Other Bible Study Helps - Prayer Tents - Prayer Tents

74:4-8 They Have Destroyed the Sanctuary. The next section details how the Gentiles devastated the sanctuary: they chopped up the wood and set fire to the building. The song calls it your meeting place (the place that God appointed to meet with his people) and your sanctuary (the holy place, the dwelling place of your name). Given the importance that God himself had placed on the temple, and the promises he had made to be present with his people, it is horrific that these Gentiles have profaned it (i.e., destroyed something holy).