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1 How the Lord has covered the daughter of Zion
with a cloud in his anger!
He has cast down from heaven to the earth the beauty
of Israel,
and hasn’t remembered his footstool in the day of his
anger.
2 The Lord has swallowed up all the habitations
of Jacob, and has not pitied.
He has thrown down in his wrath the strongholds of the
daughter of Judah.
He has brought them down to the ground; he has
profaned the kingdom and its princes.
3 He has cut off in fierce anger all the horn of
Israel.
He has drawn back his right hand from before the
enemy.
He has burned up Jacob like a flaming fire, which
devours all around.
4 He has bent his bow like an enemy, he has stood
with his right hand as an adversary,
has killed all that were pleasant to the eye.
In the tent of the daughter of Zion he has poured out
his wrath like fire.
5 The Lord has become as an enemy, he has
swallowed up Israel.
He has swallowed up all her palaces, he has destroyed
his strongholds.
He has multiplied in the daughter of Judah mourning
and lamentation.
6 He has violently taken away his tabernacle, as
if it were of a garden; he has destroyed his place of assembly:
Jehovah has caused solemn assembly and Sabbath to be
forgotten in Zion.
Has despised in the indignation of his anger the king
and the priest.
7 The Lord has cast off his altar, he has
abhorred his sanctuary.
He has given up into the hand of the enemy the walls
of her palaces.
They have made a noise in Jehovah’s house, as in the
day of a solemn assembly.
8 Jehovah has purposed to destroy the wall of the
daughter of Zion.
He has stretched out the line, he has not withdrawn
his hand from destroying.
He has made the rampart and wall to lament; they languish
together.
9 Her gates are sunk into the ground; he has
destroyed and broken her bars.
Her king and her princes are among the nations where
the law is not.
Yes, her prophets find no vision from Jehovah.
10 The elders of the daughter of Zion sit on the
ground, they keep silence.
They have cast up dust on their heads; they have clothed
themselves with sackcloth.
The virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the
ground.
11 My eyes do fail with tears, my heart is
troubled.
My liver is poured on the earth, because of the
destruction of the daughter of my people,
because the young children and the infants swoon in
the streets of the city.
12 They tell their mothers, “Where is grain and
wine?”
when they swoon as the wounded in the streets of the
city,
when their soul is poured out into their mothers’
bosom.
13 What shall I testify to you? What shall I
liken to you, daughter of Jerusalem?
What shall I compare to you, that I may comfort you,
virgin daughter of Zion?
For your breach is great like the sea: who can heal
you?
14 Your prophets have seen for you false and
foolish visions.
They have not uncovered your iniquity, to restore you
from captivity,
but have seen for you false revelations and causes of
banishment.
15 All that pass by clap their hands at you.
They hiss and wag their head at the daughter of
Jerusalem, saying,
“Is this the city that men called the perfection of
beauty, the joy of the whole earth?”
16 All your enemies have opened their mouth wide
against you.
They hiss and gnash the teeth; they say, “We have
swallowed her up.
Certainly this is the day that we looked for; we have
found, we have seen it.”
17 Jehovah has done that which he purposed; he
has fulfilled his word that he commanded in the days of old.
He has thrown down, and has not pitied.
He has caused the enemy to rejoice over you; he has
exalted the horn of your adversaries.
18 Their heart cried to the Lord:
wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like
a river day and night.
Give yourself no respite; don’t let the apple of your
eye cease.
19 Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning
of the watches.
Pour out your heart like water before the face of the
Lord.
Lift up your hands toward him for the life of your
young children, that faint for hunger at the head of every street.
20 Look, Jehovah, and see to whom you have done
thus!
Shall the women eat their fruit, the children that are
dandled in the hands?
Shall the priest and the prophet be killed in the
sanctuary of the Lord?
21 The youth and the old man lie on the ground in
the streets.
My virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword.
You have killed them in the day of your anger; you
have slaughtered, and not pitied.
22 You have called, as in the day of a solemn assembly,
my terrors on every side.
There was no one that escaped or remained in the day
of Jehovah’s anger.
Those that I have dandled and brought up my enemy has
consumed.
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