nkjv Lamentations:2:1-9 SEEK
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How the Lord has covered the daughter of Zion With a cloud in His anger !
He cast down from heaven to the earth The beauty of Israel ,
And did not remember His footstool In the day of His anger .
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The Lord has swallowed up and has not pitied All the dwelling places of Jacob .
He has thrown down in His wrath The strongholds of the daughter of Judah ;
He has brought them down to the ground ;
He has profaned the kingdom and its princes .
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He has cut off in fierce anger Every horn of Israel ;
He has drawn back His right hand From before the enemy .
He has blazed against Jacob like a flaming fire Devouring all around .
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Standing like an enemy ,
He has bent His bow ;
With His right hand ,
like an adversary ,
He has slain all who were pleasing to His eye ;
On the tent of the daughter of Zion ,
He has poured out His fury like fire .
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The Lord was like an enemy .
He has swallowed up Israel ,
He has swallowed up all her palaces ;
He has destroyed her strongholds ,
And has increased mourning and lamentation In the daughter of Judah .
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He has done violence to His tabernacle ,
As if it were a garden ;
He has destroyed His place of assembly ;
The LORD has caused The appointed feasts and Sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion .
In His burning indignation He has spurned the king and the priest .
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The Lord has spurned His altar ,
He has abandoned His sanctuary ;
He has given up the walls of her palaces Into the hand of the enemy .
They have made a noise in the house of the LORD As on the day of a set feast .
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The LORD has purposed to destroy The wall of the daughter of Zion .
He has stretched out a line ;
He has not withdrawn His hand from destroying ;
Therefore He has caused the rampart and wall to lament ;
They languished together .
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Her gates have sunk into the ground ;
He has destroyed and broken her bars .
Her king and her princes are among the nations ;
The Law is no more ,
And her prophets find no vision from the LORD .