The Mekhilta reads the phrase "You have wrought, O Lord" and immediately pivots to a devastating question: if God Himself built the Temple with His own hands, what does it say about the nations who destroyed it?
"Woe unto the peoples of the world!" the midrash (rabbinic interpretive commentary) exclaims. "What are they hearing with their ears?" The nations have risen up and destroyed a building that God Himself constructed. They have razed what the Creator personally wrought. The Psalmist captures their frenzy (Psalms 137:7): "Destroy, destroy — to its very foundation!" The enemies of Israel did not merely damage the Temple. They tore it down to bedrock, leaving nothing standing.
But the midrash does not end in despair. It turns to Jeremiah's thundering prophecy (Jeremiah 25:30): "From the heights will He roar!" God's response to the destruction of His Temple is not silence or resignation. It is a roar from the heavenly heights — a sound of fury that promises reckoning.
The passage creates a terrifying contrast. On one side, human armies congratulating themselves on demolishing a stone building. On the other side, the God who built that building with His own hands, preparing to roar from heaven. The nations think they have won. They have no idea what they have provoked. Destroying what God made with His own hands is not a military victory. It is a cosmic provocation that will echo until the end of time.