¹ And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

² The first month, The first day of the month, thou shalt set up the tabernacle of the testimony,

³ And shalt put the ark in it, and shalt let down the veil before it:

⁴ And thou shalt bring in the table, and set upon it the things that are commanded according to the rite. The candlestick shall stand with its lamps,

⁵ And the altar of gold whereon the incense is burnt, before the ark of the testimony. Thou shalt put the hanging in the entry of the tabernacle,

⁶ And before it the altar of holocaust:

⁷ The laver between the altar and the tabernacle, and thou shalt fill it with water.

⁸ And thou shalt encompass the court with hangings, and the entry thereof.

⁹ And thou shalt take the oil of unction and anoint the tabernacle with its vessels, that they may be sanctified:

¹⁰ The altar of holocaust and all its vessels:

¹¹ The laver with its foot: thou shalt consecrate all with the oil of unction, that they may be most holy.

¹² And thou shalt bring Aaron and his sons to the door of the tabernacle of the testimony, and having washed them with water,

¹³ Thou shalt put on them the holy vestments, that they may minister to me, and that the unction of them may prosper to an everlasting priesthood.

¹⁴ And Moses did all that the Lord had commanded.

¹⁵ So in the first month of the second year, the first day of the month, the tabernacle was set up.

¹⁶ And Moses reared it up, and placed the boards and the sockets and the bars, and set up the pillars,

¹⁷ And spread the roof over the tabernacle, putting over it a cover, as the Lord had commanded.

¹⁸ And he put the testimony in the ark, thrusting bars underneath, and the oracle above.

¹⁹ And when he had brought the ark into the tabernacle, he drew the veil before it to fulfil the commandment of the Lord.

²⁰ And he set the table in the tabernacle of the testimony at the north side without the veil,

²¹ Setting there in order the loaves of proposition, as the Lord had commanded Moses.

²² He set the candlestick also in the tabernacle of the testimony over against the table on the south side,

²³ Placing the lamps in order, according to the precept of the Lord.

²⁴ He set also the altar of gold under the roof of the testimony over against the veil,

²⁵ And burnt upon it the incense of spices, as the Lord had commanded Moses.

²⁶ And he put also the hanging in the entry of the tabernacle of the testimony,

²⁷ And the altar of holocaust of the entry of the testimony, offering the holocaust, and the sacrifices upon it, as the Lord had commanded.

²⁸ And he set the laver between the tabernacle of the testimony and the altar, filling it with water.

²⁹ And Moses and Aaron, and his sons washed their hands and feet,

³⁰ When they went into the tabernacle of the covenant, and went to the altar, as the Lord had commanded Moses.

³¹ He set up also the court round about the tabernacle and the altar, drawing the hanging in the entry thereof. After all things were perfected,

³² The cloud covered the tabernacle of the testimony, and the glory of the Lord filled it.

³³ Neither could Moses go into the tabernacle of the covenant, the cloud covering all things and the majesty of the Lord shining, for the cloud had covered all.

³⁴ If at any time the cloud removed from the tabernacle, the children of Israel went forward by their troops:

³⁵ If it hung over, they remained in the same place.

³⁶ For the cloud of the Lord hung over the tabernacle by day, and a fire by night, in the sight of all the children of Israel throughout all their mansions.

¹ How has the Lord 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 is 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: Yahweh 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 the house of Yahweh, as in the day of a solemn assembly.

⁸ Yahweh 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 Yahweh.

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 bring back your captivity, but have seen for you false oracles 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 Yahweh 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, Yahweh, 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 none that escaped or remained in the day of Yahweh's anger: Those that I have dandled and brought up has my enemy consumed.