Our holy and beautiful house, where our fathers praised you, has been burned by fire, and all our pleasant places have become ruins. [ESV]
I've noted this sort of thing before, but because the phrase has alliteration and syllabic balance, there's a euphony that matches the meaning.
In the Hebrew, however, the phrase is just a single word: מַחֲמַדֵּ֖ינוּ.
