Lamentations:2

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* How hath the Lord (note :)That is , brought her from prosperity to adversity .(:note ) covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger , [and ] cast down from Has given her a most sore fall . heaven to the earth the beauty of Israel , and remembered not his Alluding to the temple , or to the ark of the covenant , which was called the footstool of the Lord , because they would not set their minds so low , but lift up their heart toward the heavens . footstool in the day of his anger ! * The Lord hath destroyed al the habitations of Iaakob , &amp ; not spared : he hath throwen downe in his wrath ye strong holds of the daughter of Iudah : he hath cast the downe to ye ground : he hath polluted the kingdome and the princes thereof . * He hath cut off in [his ] fierce anger all the (note :)Meaning the glory and strength , as in ( 1Sa_2:1 ).(:note ) horn of Israel : he hath drawn back his That is , his comfort which he was wont to send us , when our enemies oppressed us . right hand from before the enemy , and he burned against Jacob like a flaming fire , [which ] devoureth on every side . * He (note :)Showing that there is no remedy but destruction where God is the enemy .(:note ) hath bent his bow like an enemy : he stood with his right hand as an adversary , and slew all [that were ] pleasant to the eye in the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion : he poured out his fury like fire . * The Lord was as an enemie : he hath deuoured Israel , and consumed all his palaces : hee hath destroyed his strong holdes , and hath increased in the daughter of Iudah lamentation and mourning . * For hee hath destroyed his Tabernacle , as a garden , hee hath destroyed his Congregation : the Lorde hath caused the feastes and Sabbathes to bee forgotten in Zion , and hath despised in the indignation of his wrath the King and the Priest . * The Lord hath cast off his altar , he hath abhorred his sanctuary , he hath given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces ; they have made a (note :)As the people were accustomed to praising God to the solemn feasts with a loud voice , so now the enemies blaspheme him with shouting and cry .(:note ) noise in the house of the LORD , as in the day of a solemn feast . * The LORD hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion : he hath stretched out a line , he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying : therefore he made the rampart (note :)This is a figurative speech as that was , when he said the ways lamented , ( Lam_1:4 ) meaning that this sorrow was so great that the insensible things had their part of it .(:note ) and the wall to lament ; they languished together . * Her gates are sunke to the grounde : he hath destroyed and broken her barres : her King and her princes are among the Gentiles : the Lawe is no more , neither can her Prophets receiue any vision from the Lord . * The Elders of the daughter of Zion sit vpon the grounde , and keepe silence : they haue cast vp dust vpon their heades : they haue girded them selues with sackecloth : the virgines of Ierusalem hang downe their heades to the ground . * Mine eyes doe saile with teares : my bowels swell : my liuer is powred vpon the earth , for the destructio of the daughter of my people , because the children and sucklings swoone in the streetes of the citie . * They haue sayd to their mothers , Where is bread and drinke ? when they swooned as the wounded in the streetes of the citie , and whe they gaue vp the ghost in their mothers bosome . * * Thy prophets have (note :)Because the false prophets called themselves seers , as the others were called , therefore he shows that they saw amiss because they did not reprove the people 's faults , but flattered them in their sins , which was the cause of their destruction .(:note ) seen vain and foolish things for thee : and they have not revealed thy iniquity , to turn away thy captivity ; but have seen for thee false burdens and causes of banishment . * All that passe by the way , clap their hands at thee : they hisse and wagge their head vpon the daughter Ierusalem , saying , Is this the citie that men call , The perfection of beautie , and the ioye of the whole earth ? * All thine enemies haue opened their mouth against thee : they hisse and gnashe the teeth , saying , Let vs deuoure it : certainely this is the day that we looked for : we haue founde and seene it . * The Lorde hath done that which he had purposed : he hath fulfilled his worde that he had determined of old time : he hath throwen downe , and not spared : hee hath caused thine enemie to reioyce ouer thee , and set vp the horne of thine aduersaries . * Their heart cryed vnto the Lord , O wall of the daughter Zion , let teares runne downe like a riuer , day and night : take thee no rest , neither let the apple of thine eye cease . * Arise , cry in the night : in the beginning of the watches powre out thine heart like water before the face of the Lord : lift vp thine handes towarde him for the life of thy yong children , that faint for hunger in the corners of all the streetes . * Beholde , O Lord , and consider to whome thou hast done thus : shall the women eate their fruite , and children of a spanne long ? shall the Priest and the Prophet be slaine in the Sanctuarie of the Lord ? * The yong and the olde lie on the ground in the streetes : my virgins and my yong men are fallen by the sworde : thou hast slaine them in the day of thy wrath : thou hast killed and not spared . * Thou hast called as in a solemne daye my terrours rounde about , so that in the day of the Lordes wrath none escaped nor remained : those that I haue nourished and brought vp , hath mine enemie consumed .

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