Psalms 74:3

"Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual ruins,

All the evil that the enemy hath done in the sanctuary.

Thine adversaries have roared in the midst of thine assembly;

They have set up their ensigns for signs."

"The perpetual ruins" (Psalms 74:3). Expressions of this kind force the conclusion that the period following the Babylonian destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple was the time of the psalm, because in no other period of Jewish history was there anything like this. Solomon's Temple lay in ruins for generations after 586 B.C.

"All the evil that the enemy, ..." (Psalms 74:3). The marginal reading here is, "The enemy hath wrought all evil in the sanctuary."

"They have set up their ensigns for signs" (Psalms 74:4). The military insignia and standards of the Babylonian conquerors were everywhere, even in the ruins of the temple.