Lamentations 2

¹ How hath the Lord in his angeranger covered the daughter of Ziondaughter of Zion with a cloud! He hath cast down from the heavensheavens unto the earthearth the beauty of IsraelIsrael, and rememberedremembered not his footstoolfootstool in the day ofday of his angeranger.

² The Lord hath swallowedswallowed up all the dwellings of JacobJacob, and hath not spared; he hath thrown down in his wrath the strongholdsstrongholds of the daughter of JudahJudah: he hath brought [them] down to the groundground; he hath profaned the kingdom and the princesprinces thereof.

³ He hath cut off in fierce angerfierce anger all the hornhorn of IsraelIsrael: he hath withdrawn his right handright hand from beforebefore the enemyenemy; and he burned up JacobJacob like a flamingflaming firefire, devouring round aboutround about.

⁴ He hath bent his bowbow like an enemyenemy; he stood with his right hand as an adversary, and hath slainslain all that was pleasant to the eyeeye: in the tenttent of the daughter of Ziondaughter of Zion, he hath poured out his furyfury like firefire.

⁵ The Lord is become as an enemyenemy: he hath swallowedswallowed up IsraelIsrael; he hath swallowedswallowed up all her palacespalaces; he hath destroyed his strongholdsstrongholds, and hath multiplied in the daughter of JudahJudah mourning and lamentation.

⁶ And he hath violently cast down his enclosure as a gardengarden; he hath destroyed his place of assembly: JehovahJehovah hath caused set feast and sabbathsabbath to be forgottenforgotten in Zion, and hath despiseddespised in the indignation of his angeranger king and priest.

⁷ The LordThe Lord hath cast off his altaraltar, he hath rejected his sanctuary; he hath givengiven up into the handhand of the enemyenemy the walls of her palacespalaces: they have made a noisenoise in the househouse of JehovahJehovah, as on the day ofday of a set feast.

⁸ JehovahJehovah hath purposed to destroy the wallwall of the daughter of Zion: he hath stretched outstretched out the line, he hath not withdrawn his handhand from destroying; and he hath made the rampartrampart and the wallwall to lament: they languish together.

⁹ Her gatesgates are sunk into the groundground; he hath destroyed and brokenbroken her barsbars. Her king and her princesprinces are among the nationsnations: the law is no [more]; her prophetsprophets also findfind no visionvision from JehovahJehovah.

¹⁰ The elderselders of the daughter of Ziondaughter of Zion sitsit upon the groundground, they keep silence; they have cast dustdust upon their headsheads, they have girdedgirded themselves with sackclothsackcloth: the virginsvirgins of JerusalemJerusalem hang downdown their headhead to the groundground.

¹¹ Mine eyeseyes are consumed with tearstears, my bowels are troubled; my liverliver is poured upon the earthearth, because of the ruin of the daughter of my people; because infantinfant and sucklingsuckling swoon in the streetsstreets of the city.

¹² They saysay to their mothersmothers, Where is corncorn and winewine? when they swoon as the wounded in the streetsstreets of the citycity; when they pour outpour out their soulsoul into their mothersmothers' bosombosom.

¹³ What shall I take to witness for thee? what shall I liken unto thee, daughter of JerusalemJerusalem? What shall I equal to thee, that I may comfortcomfort thee, virgin daughter of Zion? For thy ruin is greatgreat as the seasea: who will heal thee?

¹⁴ Thy prophetsprophets have seenseen vanityvanity and follyfolly for thee; and they have not revealed thine iniquityiniquity, to turn away thy captivitycaptivity; but have seenseen for thee burdens of falsehood and causes of expulsion.

¹⁵ All that passpass by clap [their] handshands at thee; they hiss and shake their headhead at the daughter of JerusalemJerusalem: Is this the citycity which they called, The perfection of beautybeauty, The joy of the whole earthearth?

¹⁶ All thine enemiesenemies openopen their mouthmouth against thee, they hiss and gnash the teethteeth: they saysay, We have swallowedswallowed [her] up; this is forsooth the dayday that we looked for: we have foundfound, we have seenseen [it].

¹⁷ JehovahJehovah hath done what he had devised; he hath fulfilled his word which he had commandedcommanded from the days of olddays of old: he hath thrown down, and hath not spared, and he hath caused the enemyenemy to rejoicerejoice over thee; he hath set up the hornhorn of thine adversariesadversaries.

¹⁸ Their heartheart cried unto the Lord. O wallwall of the daughter of Zion, let tearstears run downdown like a torrenttorrent day and nightnight: givegive thyself no respite; let not the apple of thine eyeeye rest.

¹⁹ Arise, cry out in the nightnight, in the beginning of the watches; pour outpour out thy heartheart like waterwater beforebefore the faceface of the Lord: liftlift up thy handshands toward him for the life of thy young children, who faint from hunger at the top of all the streetsstreets.

²⁰ SeeSee, JehovahJehovah, and consider to whom thou hast done this! Shall the womenwomen eateat their fruitfruit, the infantsinfants that they nursed? Shall priest and prophetprophet be slainslain in the sanctuary of the Lordthe Lord?

²¹ The child and the old man lie on the groundground in the streetsstreets; my virginsvirgins and my young menyoung men are fallenfallen by the swordsword: thou hast slainslain [them] in the day ofday of thine angeranger; thou hast killedkilled, thou hast not spared.

²² Thou hast calledcalled up, as on the day ofday of a set feast, my terrors on every sideside; and in the day ofday of Jehovah'sJehovah's angeranger there was none that escaped or remained: those that I have nursed and brought up hath mine enemyenemy consumed.