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Lamentations 2:1

The Lord is Angry

2 How, in his anger,a

the Lord has covered the daughter of Zion in a cloud!

He has thrown down from heavens to earth

the splendor of Israel,

and he has not remembered his footstool

in the day of his anger.b

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Lamentations 2:1 — The New International Version (NIV)

How the Lord has covered Daughter Zion

with the cloud of his anger!

He has hurled down the splendor of Israel

from heaven to earth;

he has not remembered his footstool

in the day of his anger.

Lamentations 2:1 — English Standard Version (ESV)

How the Lord in his anger

has set the daughter of Zion under a cloud!

He has cast down from heaven to earth

the splendor of Israel;

he has not remembered his footstool

in the day of his anger.

Lamentations 2:1 — King James Version (KJV 1900)

How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger,

And cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel,

And remembered not his footstool in the day of his anger!

Lamentations 2:1 — New Living Translation (NLT)

The Lord in his anger

has cast a dark shadow over beautiful Jerusalem.

The fairest of Israel’s cities lies in the dust,

thrown down from the heights of heaven.

In his day of great anger,

the Lord has shown no mercy even to his Temple.

Lamentations 2:1 — The New King James Version (NKJV)

How the Lord has covered the daughter of Zion

With a cloud in His anger!

He cast down from heaven to the earth

The beauty of Israel,

And did not remember His footstool

In the day of His anger.

Lamentations 2:1 — New Century Version (NCV)

Look how the Lord in his anger

has brought Jerusalem to shame.

He has thrown down the greatness of Israel

from the sky to the earth;

he did not remember the Temple, his footstool,

on the day of his anger.

Lamentations 2:1 — American Standard Version (ASV)

How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger!

He hath cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel,

And hath not remembered his footstool in the day of his anger.

Lamentations 2:1 — 1890 Darby Bible (DARBY)

How hath the Lord in his anger covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud! He hath cast down from the heavens unto the earth the beauty of Israel, and remembered not his footstool in the day of his anger.

Lamentations 2:1 — GOD’S WORD Translation (GW)

“Look how the Lord has covered the people of Zion 

with the cloud of his anger! 

He has thrown down Israel’s beauty from heaven to earth. 

He didn’t ⸤even⸥ remember his footstool on the day of his anger. 

Lamentations 2:1 — The Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

How the Lord has overshadowed

Daughter Zion with His anger!

He has thrown down Israel’s glory

from heaven to earth.

He has abandoned His footstool

in the day of His anger.

Lamentations 2:1 — The New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)

How the Lord in his anger

has humiliated daughter Zion!

He has thrown down from heaven to earth

the splendor of Israel;

he has not remembered his footstool

in the day of his anger.

Lamentations 2:1 — New International Reader’s Version (1998) (NIrV)

See how the Lord covered the city of Zion

with the cloud of his anger!

He threw Israel’s glory down

from heaven to earth.

When he was angry, he turned his back

on his own city.

Lamentations 2:1 — New American Standard Bible: 1995 Update (NASB95)

How the Lord has covered the daughter of Zion

With a cloud in His anger!

He has cast from heaven to earth

The glory of Israel,

And has not remembered His footstool

In the day of His anger.


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