2 The Lord has devoured; he has not shown mercy

to all the dwellings of Jacob;

he has broken down in his wrath

the fortifications of the daughter of Judah;

he has leveled to the ground, he has dishonored

the kingdom and its commanders.c

3 He has cut down ⌊in fierce anger⌋d

all the might of Israel;

he has withdrawn his right hand

from the faces of the enemy,

and he has burned in Jacob like a flaming fire,

it has consumed all around.

4 He has bent his bow like an enemy;

he has set his right hand

like a foe, and he has slain

all the treasures of the eye;e

in the tent of the daughter of Zion,

he has poured out his anger like fire.

5 The Lord has become like an enemy;

he has destroyed Israel;

he has destroyed all its citadel fortresses;f

he has ruined all its fortifications

and multiplied lamentation and mourning

in the daughter of Judah.

6 He has broken down ⌊his dwelling⌋g place like the garden;

he has ruined his appointed feasts;

Yahweh has made them forget in Zion

⌊festival⌋h and Sabbath,

and he has despised in his anger

king and priest.

7 The Lord has rejected his altar;

he has rejected his sanctuary;

he has delivered into the hands of the enemy

the walls of its citadel fortresses.i

They have cried out in the house of Yahweh

like a day of an appointed feast.

8 Yahweh has planned to destroy

the wall of the daughter of Zion.

He measured with a line; he has not restrained

his hand from destroying;

he caused rampart and wall to mourn;

together they have languished away.

9 Her gates have sunk into the earth;

he has ruined and broken her bars,

her kings and its princes are among the nations;

there is no more law.j

Also, her prophets have not found

a revelation from Yahweh.