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Lamentations
Chapter 2
God’s Anger over Jerusalem
1
How
a
the Lord
has covered
the Daughter
of Zion
with the cloud of His anger
!
He has cast
the glory
of Israel
from heaven
to earth
.
He has abandoned
His footstool
in the day
of His anger
.
2
Without
pity
the Lord
has swallowed up
all
the dwellings
of Jacob
.
In His wrath
He has demolished
the fortified cities
of the Daughter
of Judah
.
He brought
to the ground
and defiled
her kingdom
and its princes
.
3
In fierce
anger
He has cut off
every
horn
b
of Israel
and withdrawn
His right hand
at the approach
of the enemy
.
He has burned
in Jacob
like a flaming
fire
that consumes
everything around it
.
4
He has bent
His bow
like an enemy
;
His right hand
is positioned
.
Like a foe
He has killed
all
who were pleasing
to the eye
;
He has poured out
His wrath
like fire
on the tent
of the Daughter
of Zion
.
5
The Lord
is
like an enemy
;
He has swallowed up
Israel
.
He has swallowed up
all
her palaces
and destroyed
her strongholds
.
He has multiplied
mourning
and lamentation
for the Daughter
of Judah
.
6
He has laid waste
His tabernacle
like a garden booth
;
He has destroyed
His place of meeting
.
The
LORD
has made Zion forget
her appointed feasts
and Sabbaths
.
In His fierce anger
He has despised
both king
and priest
.
7
The Lord
has rejected
His altar
;
He has abandoned
His sanctuary
;
He has delivered
the walls
of her palaces
into the hand
of the enemy
.
They have raised
a shout
in the house
of the
LORD
as on the day
of an appointed feast
.
8
The
LORD
determined
to destroy
the wall
of the Daughter
of Zion
.
He stretched out
a measuring line
and did not
withdraw
His hand
from destroying
.
He made the ramparts
and walls
lament
;
together
they waste away
.
9
Her gates
have sunk
into the ground
;
He has destroyed
and shattered
their bars
.
Her king
and her princes
are exiled among the nations
,
the law
is no more
,
and even
her prophets
find
no
vision
from the
LORD
.
10
The elders
of the Daughter
of Zion
sit
on the ground
in silence
.
They have thrown
dust
on
their heads
and put on
sackcloth
.
The young women
of Jerusalem
have bowed
their heads
to the ground
.
11
My eyes
fail
from weeping
;
I am churning
within
.
My heart
is poured out
in grief
over
the destruction
of the daughter
of my people
,
because children
and infants
faint
in the streets
of the city
.
12
They cry out
to their mothers
:
“
Where
is the grain
and wine
?”
as they faint
like the wounded
in the streets
of the city
,
as their lives
fade away
in
the arms
of their mothers
.
13
What
can I say for you
?
To
what
can I compare you
,
O Daughter
of Jerusalem
?
To
what
can I liken you
,
that I may console you
,
O Virgin
Daughter
of Zion
?
For
your wound
is as deep
as the sea
.
Who
can ever heal
you?
14
The visions
of your prophets
were empty
and deceptive
;
they did not
expose
your guilt
to ward off
your captivity
.
The burdens
they envisioned
for you
were empty
and misleading
.
15
All
who pass by
clap
their hands
at you in scorn
.
They hiss
and shake
their heads
at
the Daughter
of Jerusalem
:
“
Is this
the city
that was called
the perfection
of beauty
,
the joy
of all
the earth
?”
16
All
your enemies
open
their mouths
against you
.
They hiss
and gnash
their teeth
,
saying
, “
We have swallowed her up
.
This
is the day
for which we have waited
.
We have lived
to see it
!”
17
The
LORD
has done
what
He planned
;
He has accomplished
His decree
,
which
He ordained
in days
of old
;
He has overthrown you
without
pity
.
He has let the enemy
gloat
over you
and exalted
the horn
c
of your foes
.
18
The hearts of the people
cry out
to
the Lord
.
d
O wall
of the Daughter
of Zion
,
let your tears
run down
like a river
day
and night
.
Give
yourself
no
relief
,
and your eyes
no
rest
.
19
Arise
,
cry out
in the night
from the first
watch of the night
.
e
Pour out
your heart
like water
in
the presence
of the Lord
.
Lift up
your hands
to Him
for
the lives
of your children
who are fainting
from hunger
on the corner
of every
street
.
20
Look
,
O
LORD
,
and consider
:
Whom
have You ever treated
like this
?
Should
women
eat
their offspring
,
the infants
they have nurtured
?
Should priests
and prophets
be killed
in the sanctuary
of the Lord
?
21
Both young
and old
lie together
in the dust
of the streets
.
My young men
and maidens
have fallen
by the sword
.
You have slain them
in the day
of Your anger
;
You have slaughtered them
without
compassion
.
22
You summoned
my terrors
on every side
,
as for the day
of an appointed feast
.
In the day
of the
LORD’s
anger
no
one escaped
or survived
;
my enemy
has destroyed
those
I nurtured
and reared
.
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