Lamentations:2:1-9
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How hath the Lord coveredthe daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger ,
and cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel Yisra #
el #,
and remembered not his footstool hadom #
in the day of his anger !
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The Lord hath swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob Ya #
aqob #,
and hath not pitied :
he hath thrown down in his wrath the strong holds of the daughter of Judah ;
he hath brought them down to the ground :
he hath polluted the kingdom and the princes thereof .
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He hath cut off in his fierce anger all the horn of Israel Yisra #
el #:
he hath drawn back his right hand from before the enemy ,
and he burned against Jacob like a flaming fire ,
which devoureth round about .
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He 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 .
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The Lord was as an enemy :
he hath swallowed up Israel Yisra #
el #,
he hath swallowed up all her palaces :
he hath destroyed his strong holds ,
and hath increased in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation .
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And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle ,
as if it were of a garden :
he hath destroyed his places of the assembly mow #
ed #:
the LORD hath caused the solemn feasts and sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion ,
and hath despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest .
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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 feast mow #
ed #.
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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he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying :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 and the wall to lament ;
they languished together .
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Her gates are sunk into the ground ;
he hath destroyed and broken her bars :
her king and her princes are among the Gentiles :
the law is no more ;
her prophets also find no vision from the LORD .