Lamentations:2

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* How the Lord has covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in His anger ! He cast down the beauty of Israel from the heavens to the earth and remembered not His footstool in the day of His anger . * The Lord swallowed up all the dwelling-places of Jacob [and ] has not pitied . In His wrath He has thrown down the strongholds of the daughter of Judah ; He has brought [them ] down to the ground . He has defiled the kingdom and its rulers . * He has cut off all the horn of Israel in [His ] fierce anger ; He has drawn back His right hand from before the enemy , and He burned against Jacob like flaming fire [which ] devours all around . * He has bent His bow like an enemy ; [He stood with ] His right hand like an adversary , and killed all [who were ] desirable to the eye in the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion . He poured out His fury like fire . * The LORD was like an enemy ; He swallowed up Israel ; He has swallowed up all her palaces , [and ] destroyed His strongholds . And [He ] has increased mourning and weeping in the daughter of Judah . * And He violated His booth like a garden , [and ] destroyed His meeting places . The LORD caused the meeting places and sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion , and He despised the king and the priest in the fury of His anger . * The LORD has cast off His altar ; He rejected His sanctuary ; He has given up the walls of her palaces into the hater 's hand . They gave a noise in the house of the LORD , as a day of meeting . * The LORD purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion ; He has stretched out a line ; He has not withdrawn His hand from swallowing , and He made rampart and wall lament ; they languish together . * Her gates have sunk in the ground ; He has destroyed and broken her bars . Her kings and her rulers [are ] among the nations . The law is no more ; also her prophets also find no vision from the LORD . * The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground and [are ] silent ; they send up dust on their heads ; they gird on sackclothes . The virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground . * My eyes fail with tears ; my inward parts ferment ; my liver is poured on the ground for the ruin of the daughter of my people , in that the children and the babies faint in the streets of the city . * They say to their mothers , Where [are ] grain and wine ? In their fainting [they are ] like the wounded in the streets of the city , in their pouring out their lives to their mothers ' bosom . * What can I testify for you ? What thing shall I compare to you , O daughter of Jerusalem ? What shall I equal to you , so that I may comfort you , O virgin daughter of Zion ? For your break [is ] great like the sea ! Who can heal you ? * Your prophets have seen false and foolish things for you , and they have not uncovered your iniquity , to turn away your captivity ; but they have seen false oracles and seductions for you . * All who pass by clap [their ] hands at you ; they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem , [saying ], Is this the city which they called the perfection of beauty , the joy of the whole earth ? * All your enemies have opened their mouth 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 . * The LORD has done [what ] He has purposed ; He has fulfilled His word which He commanded from the days of old . He has thrown down and not pitied . And He caused your hater to rejoice over you ; He has set up the horn of your foes . * Their heart cried to the LORD . O wall of the daughter of Zion , let tears run down like a torrent day and night ; give yourself no rest . Let not the daughter of your eye cease . * 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 children who are faint for hunger in the head of every street . * Behold , O LORD , and consider to whom You have done this . Shall the women eat their fruit , children of tender care ? Shall the priest and the prophet be killed in the holy place of the Lord ? * Young and old 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 killed and not pitied . * You have called as in a solemn day my terrors all around , and there was not an escaped one or a survivor in the day of the LORD 's anger . Those whom I have nursed and multiplied , my enemy has consumed .

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