Lamentations:2

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* How hath the Lord covered with a cloud the daughter of Zion in His anger ! He hath cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel , and hath not remembered His footstool in the day of His anger . * The Lord hath swallowed up unsparingly all the habitations of Jacob ; He hath thrown down in His wrath the strongholds of the daughter of Judah ; He hath brought them down to the ground ; He hath profaned the kingdom and the princes thereof . * He hath cut off in fierce anger all the horn of Israel ; He hath drawn back His right hand from before the enemy ; and He hath burned in Jacob like a flaming fire , which devoureth round about . * He hath bent His bow like an enemy , standing with His right hand as an adversary , and hath slain all that were pleasant to the eye ; in the tent of the daughter of Zion He hath poured out His fury like fire . * The Lord is become as an enemy , He hath swallowed up Israel ; He hath swallowed up all her palaces , He hath destroyed his strongholds ; and He hath multiplied in the daughter of Judah mourning and moaning . * And He hath stripped His tabernacle , as if it were a garden , He hath destroyed His place of assembly ; the LORD hath caused to be forgotten in Zion appointed season and sabbath , and hath rejected in the indignation of His anger 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 noise in the house of the LORD , as in the day of a solemn assembly . * The LORD hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion ; He hath stretched out the line , He hath not withdrawn His hand from destroying ; but He hath made the rampart and wall to mourn , they languish together . * Her gates are sunk into the ground ; He hath destroyed and broken her bars ; her king and her princes are among the nations , instruction is no more ; yea , her prophets find no vision from the LORD . * They sit upon the ground , and keep silence , the elders of the daughter of Zion ; they have cast up dust upon their heads , they have girded themselves with sackcloth ; the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground . * Mine eyes do fail with tears , mine inwards burn , my liver is poured upon the earth , for the breach of the daughter of my people ; because the young children and the sucklings swoon in the broad places of the city . * They say to their mothers : 'Where is corn and wine ?' when they swoon as the wounded in the broad places of the city , when their soul is poured out into their mothers ' bosom . * What shall I take to witness for thee ? What shall I liken to thee , O daughter of Jerusalem ? What shall I equal to thee , that I may comfort thee , O virgin daughter of Zion ? For thy breach is great like the sea ; who can heal thee ? * Thy prophets have seen visions for thee of vanity and delusion ; and they have not uncovered thine iniquity , to bring back thy captivity ; but have prophesied for thee burdens of vanity and seduction . * All that pass by clap their hands at thee ; they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem : 'Is this the city that men called the perfection of beauty , the joy of the whole earth ?' * All thine enemies have opened their mouth wide against thee ; 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 .' * The LORD hath done that which He devised ; He hath performed His word that He commanded in the days of old ; He hath thrown down unsparingly ; and He hath caused the enemy to rejoice over thee , He hath exalted the horn of thine adversaries . * Their heart cried unto the Lord : 'O wall of the daughter of Zion , let tears run down like a river day and night ; give thyself no respite ; let not the apple of thine eye cease . * Arise , cry out in the night , at the beginning of the watches ; pour out thy heart like water before the face of the Lord ; lift up thy hands toward Him for the life of thy young children , that faint for hunger at the head of every street .' * 'See , O LORD , and consider , to whom Thou hast done thus ! Shall the women eat their fruit , the children that are dandled in the hands ? Shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord ? * The youth and the old man lie on the ground in the streets ; my virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword ; Thou hast slain them in the day of Thine anger ; Thou hast slaughtered unsparingly . * Thou hast called , as in the day of a solemn assembly , my terrors on every side , and there was none in the day of the LORD 'S anger that escaped or remained ; those that I have dandled and brought up hath mine enemy consumed .'

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