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1How has the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger!
He has cast the beauty of Israel down from heaven to the earth ,
and hasn’t remembered his footstool in the day of his anger.
2The Lord has swallowed up all the dwellings of Jacob
without pity .
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 .
3He has cut off all the horn of Israel in fierce anger .
He has drawn back his right hand from before the enemy.
He has burnt up Jacob like a flaming fire,
which devours all around .
4He has bent his bow like an enemy .
He has stood with his right hand as an adversary .
He 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.
5The 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 mourning and lamentation in the daughter of Judah .
6He has violently taken away his tabernacle ,
as if it were a garden .
He has destroyed his place of assembly .
The LORD has caused solemn assembly and Sabbath to be forgotten in Zion .
In the indignation of his anger , he has despised the king and the priest .
7The Lord has cast off his altar .
He has abhorred his sanctuary .
He has given the walls of her palaces into the hand of the enemy.
They have made a noise in the LORD ’s house ,
as in the day of a solemn assembly .
8The LORD 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He has not withdrawn his hand from destroying ;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 lament.
They languish together .
9Her gates have sunk into the ground.
He has destroyed and broken her bars .
Her king and her princes are amongst the nations where the law is not .
Yes , her prophets find no vision from the LORD .
10The 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 .
11My eyes fail with tears .
My heart is troubled .
My bile 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 .
12They ask 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 .
13What 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 as big as the sea .
Who can heal you ?
14Your prophets have seen false and foolish visions for you .
They have not uncovered your iniquity ,
to reverse your captivity ,
but have seen for you false revelations and causes of banishment .
15All 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’?”
16All your enemies have opened their mouth wide against you .
They hiss and gnash their teeth .
They say , “We have swallowed her up .
Certainly this is the day that we looked for .
We have found it .
We have seen it .”
17The LORD has done that which he planned .
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 .
18Their heart cried to the Lord.
O wall of the daughter of Zion ,
let tears run down like a river day and night .
Give yourself no relief .
Don’t let your eyes rest .
19Arise , 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 towards him for the life of your young children ,
who faint for hunger at the head of every street .
20“Look , LORD , and see to whom you have done thus !
Should the women eat their offspring ,
the children that they held and bounced on their knees?
Should 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 have 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 the LORD ’s anger.
My enemy has consumed those whom I have cared for and brought up .