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Lamentations 2:1–10
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2 How the Lord has overshadowed
Daughter Zion with his anger!
He has thrown down Israel’s glory
from heaven to earth.
He did not acknowledge his footstoolw
in the day of his anger.x
2 Without compassiona the Lord has swallowed up
all the dwellings of Jacob.
In his wrath he has demolished
the fortified citiesb of Daughter Judah.
He brought them to the ground
and defiled the kingdom and its leaders.c
3 He has cut off every hornd of Israel
in his burning anger
and withdrawn his right hande
in the presence of the enemy.
He has blazed against Jacob like a flaming fire
that consumes everything.f
4 He has strung his bow like an enemy;g
his right hand is positioned like an adversary.
He has killed everyone who was the delight to the eye,h
pouring out his wrath like fire
on the tent of Daughter Zion.
5 The Lord is like an enemy;
he has swallowed up Israel.
He swallowed up all its palaces
and destroyed its fortified cities.
He has multiplied mourning and lamentation
within Daughter Judah.i
6 He has wrecked his templeA
as if it were merely a shack in a field,B
destroying his place of meeting.j
The Lord has abolished
appointed festivals and Sabbaths in Zion.
He has despised king and priest
in his fierce anger.
7 The Lord has rejected his altar,
repudiated his sanctuary;k
he has handed the walls of her palaces
over to the enemy.
They have raised a shout in the house of the Lord
as on the day of an appointed festival.
8 The Lord determined to destroy
the wall of Daughter Zion.
He stretched out a measuring linel
and did not restrain himself from destroying.
He made the ramparts and walls grieve;
together they waste away.
9 Zion’s gates have fallen to the ground;m
he has destroyed and shattered the bars on her gates.
Her king and her leaders live among the nations,
instructionC is no more,
and even her prophets receive
no vision from the Lord.n
10 The elders of Daughter Zion
sit on the ground in silence.
They have thrown dust on their headso
and put on sackcloth.
The young women of Jerusalem
have bowed their heads to the ground.p
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