Lamentations:2

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* How hath the Lord in his anger covered with a cloud the daughter of Zion ! He hath cast down from heaven to earth the glory of Israel , And hath not remembered his footstool in the day of his anger . * Lord hath swallowed up without pity all the habitations of Jacob ; He hath thrown down in his wrath the strongholds of the daughter of Judah ; He hath brought down to the ground , he hath profaned the kingdom and its princes . * He hath cut off , in his fierce anger , every horn of Israel ; He hath drawn back his right hand from the face of the enemy , And hath burned against Jacob like a flaming fire , which devoureth round about . * He bent his bow like an enemy ; He stood with his right hand as an adversary , and slew all that was pleasant to the eye ; Upon the tent of the daughter of Zion he poured out his fury like fire . * The Lord is become as an enemy ; he hath swallowed up Israel ; He hath swallowed up all his palaces ; he hath destroyed his strongholds ; And hath multiplied in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation . * He hath violently torn away his hedge , like the hedge of a garden ; he hath destroyed his place of congregation ; Jehovah hath caused the solemn feast and the sabbath to be forgotten in Zion ; He hath despised , in his fierce anger , the king and the priest . * The Lord hath cast off his altar ; he hath abhorred his holy place ; He hath given up into the hands of the enemy the walls of Zion ’s palaces ; They have lifted up the voice in the house of Jehovah , as in the day of a solemn feast . * Jehovah hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion ; He hath stretched out the line , he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying ; He hath made the rampart and the wall to lament ; They languish together . * Her gates are sunk into the earth ; he hath destroyed and broken her bars ; Her king and her princes are among the nations ; The law is no more ; Her prophets also find no vision from Jehovah . * The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground in silence ; They have cast 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 ; my bowels boil ; My liver is poured out upon the ground on account of the destruction of the daughter of my people ; For the children and sucklings faint in the streets of the city . * They say to their mothers , "Where is corn and wine ?" While they faint , as one wounded , in the streets of the city ; While their life is poured out into their mother ’s bosom . * How shall I address thee ? what shall I liken to thee , O daughter of Jerusalem ? With what shall I compare thee , so as to comfort thee , O virgin daughter of Zion ? Surely thy breach is wide , like the sea ; who can heal thee ? * Thy prophets declare to thee that which is vain and false ; They lay not open to thee thine iniquity , to bring back thy captivity ; They pronounce to thee prophecies of falsehood and seduction . * All that that pass by clap their hands at thee ; They hiss , and shake their heads 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 open their mouths against thee ; They hiss and gnash the teeth ; They say : "We have swallowed her up ; Yea , this is the day that we looked for ; we have found , we have seen it ." * Jehovah hath accomplished that which he had devised ; He hath fulfilled his word , which he had commanded in the days of old ; He hath thrown down and hath not pitied ; He hath caused thine enemy to rejoice over thee ; he hath exalted the horn of thine adversaries . * Their heart crieth out to the Lord . O wall of the daughter of Zion , let thy tears run down like a river day and night ! Give thyself no rest ! let not the apple of thine eye cease ! * Arise , cry aloud in the night at the beginning of the watches ! Pour out thy heart like water before the face of Jehovah ! Lift up thy hands to him for the life of thy young children , That faint for hunger at the head of all the streets ! * "Behold , O Jehovah , and consider ! With whom hast thou dealt thus ? Shall women eat the fruit of the womb , children borne in the arms ? Shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the holy place of the Lord ? * "The boy 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 killed , and hast shown no mercy . * "Thou hast called , as on a festal day , my terrors around me ; There was not one , in the day of Jehovah ’s anger , that escaped or was left ; Those whom I have borne in my arms and brought up hath my enemy consumed ."

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