4 iStanding like an enemy, He has bent His bow;

With His right hand, like an adversary,

He has slain jall who were pleasing to His eye;

On the tent of the daughter of Zion,

He has poured out His fury like fire.

5 kThe Lord was like an enemy.

He has swallowed up Israel,

He has swallowed up all her palaces;

lHe has destroyed her strongholds,

And has increased mourning and lamentation

In the daughter of Judah.

6 He has done violence mto His 2tabernacle,

nAs if it were a garden;

He has destroyed His place of assembly;

The Lord has caused

The appointed feasts and Sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion.

In His burning indignation He has ospurned the king and the priest.

7 The Lord has spurned His altar,

He has pabandoned His sanctuary;

He has 3given up the walls of her palaces

Into the hand of the enemy.

qThey have made a noise in the house of the Lord

As on the day of a set feast.

8 The Lord has 4purposed to destroy

The rwall of the daughter of Zion.

sHe has stretched out a line;

He has not withdrawn His hand from destroying;

Therefore He has caused the rampart and wall to lament;

They languished together.