They have cast fire into thy sanctuary,.... Or, "thy sanctuary into the fire" ; which denotes the utter destruction of it by fire, which was done both by the Chaldean and Roman armies; see 2Ki 25:9,they have defiled, by casting down the dwelling place of thy name to the ground, or "to the earth they have defiled the habitation of thy name" ; that is, to the last and lowest degree; this Antiochus did when he set up an idol in the temple, and Titus when he laid it level with the ground, not leaving one stone upon another, as our Lord predicted, Mt 24:1 the aggravation of which was, that it was the place where the Lord had put his name, where his name was called upon, and where was the symbol of his presence.
Kvdqm vab "in ignem sanctuaria tua", Pagninus, Vatablus; so Cocceius, Gejerus, Michaelis.