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Lamentations 2

God's Anger over Israel

1

How the Lord has  acovered the daughter of Zion With a cloud in His anger! He has  bcast from heaven to earth The  cglory of Israel, And has not remembered His  dfootstool In the day of His anger.

2

The Lord has  aswallowed up; He has not spared All the habitations of Jacob. In His wrath He has  bthrown down The strongholds of the daughter of Judah; He has  cbrought them down to the ground; He has  dprofaned the kingdom and its princes.

3

In fierce anger He has cut off  1All the  astrength of Israel; He has  bdrawn back His right hand From before the enemy. And He has  cburned in Jacob like a flaming fire Consuming round about.

4

He has bent His  abow like an enemy; He has set His right hand like an adversary And slain all that were  bpleasant to the eye; In the tent of the daughter of Zion He has  cpoured out His wrath like fire.

5

The Lord has become like an  aenemy. He has  bswallowed up Israel; He has swallowed up all its  cpalaces, He has destroyed its strongholds And  dmultiplied in the daughter of Judah Mourning and moaning.

6

And He has violently treated His  1tabernacle like a garden booth; He has  adestroyed His appointed  2meeting place. The LORD has  bcaused to be forgotten The appointed feast and sabbath in Zion, And He has  cdespised king and priest In the indignation of His anger.

7

The Lord has  arejected His altar, He has abandoned His sanctuary; He  bhas delivered into the hand of the enemy The walls of her palaces. They have made a  cnoise in the house of the LORD As in the day of an appointed feast.

8

The LORD  1determined to destroy The wall of the daughter of Zion. He has  astretched out a line, He has not restrained His hand from  2destroying, And He has  bcaused rampart and wall to lament; They have languished together.

9

Her  agates have sunk into the ground, He has destroyed and broken her bars. Her king and her princes are among the nations; The  blaw is no more. Also, her prophets find  cNo vision from the LORD.

10

The elders of the daughter of Zion  aSit on the ground, they  bare silent. They have thrown  cdust on their heads; They have girded themselves with  dsackcloth. The  evirgins of Jerusalem Have bowed their heads to the ground.

11

My  aeyes fail because of tears, My  1 bspirit is greatly troubled; My  2 cheart is poured out on the earth  dBecause of the  3destruction of the daughter of my people, When  elittle ones and infants faint In the streets of the city.

12

They say to their mothers, " aWhere is grain and wine?" As they faint like a wounded man In the streets of the city, As their  blife is poured out On their mothers' bosom.

13

How shall I admonish you? To what  ashall I compare you, O daughter of Jerusalem? To what shall I liken you as I comfort you, O  bvirgin daughter of Zion? For your  1ruin is as vast as the sea; Who can  cheal you?

14

Your  aprophets have seen for you False and foolish visions; And they have not  bexposed your iniquity So as to restore you from captivity, But they have  cseen for you false and misleading  1oracles.

15

All who pass along the way  aClap their hands in derision at you; They  bhiss and shake their heads At the daughter of Jerusalem, "Is this the city of which they said, ` cThe perfection of beauty,  dA joy to all the earth'?"

16

All  ayour enemies Have opened their mouths wide against you; They hiss and  bgnash their teeth. They say, "We have  cswallowed her up! Surely this is the  dday for which we waited; We have reached it, we have seen it."

17

The LORD has  adone what He purposed; He has accomplished His word Which He commanded from days of old. He has thrown down  bwithout sparing, And He has caused the enemy to  crejoice over you; He has  dexalted the  1might of your adversaries.

18

Their  aheart cried out to the Lord, "O  bwall of the daughter of Zion, Let your  ctears run down like a river day and night; Give yourself no relief, Let  1your eyes have no rest.

19

"Arise, cry aloud in the  anight At the beginning of the night watches;  bPour out your heart like water Before the presence of the Lord; Lift up your hands to Him For the  clife of your little ones Who are  dfaint because of hunger At the head of every street."

20

See, O LORD, and look! With  awhom have You dealt thus? Should women  beat their  1offspring, The little ones who were  2born healthy? Should  cpriest and prophet be slain In the sanctuary of the Lord?

21

On the ground in the streets Lie  ayoung and old; My  bvirgins and my young men Have fallen by the sword. You have slain them in the day of Your anger, You have slaughtered,  cnot sparing.

22

You called as in the day of an appointed feast My  aterrors on every side; And there was  bno one who escaped or survived In the day of the LORD'S anger. Those  cwhom I  1bore and reared, My enemy annihilated them.



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