Lamentations 2
2:1 How hath the LORD covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud
in his anger, [and] cast down from heaven to the earth the
beauty of Israel, and remembered not his footstool in the day
of his anger!
2:2 The LORD hath swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, 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 its princes.
2:3 He hath cut off in [his] fierce anger all the horn of
Israel: he hath drawn back his right hand from before the
enemy, and he burned against Jacob like a flaming fire, [which]
devoureth on every side.
2:4 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.
2:5 The LORD was as an enemy: he hath swallowed up Israel, he
hath swallowed up all her palaces: he hath destroyed his strong
holds, and hath increased in the daughter of Judah mourning and
lamentation.
2:6 And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as [if it
were of] a garden: he hath destroyed his places of the
assembly: the LORD hath caused the solemn feasts and sabbaths
to be forgotten in Zion, and in the indignation of his anger
hath despised the king and the priest.
2:7 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.
2:8 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of Zion: he hath stretched out a line, he hath not withdrawn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.
2:9 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.
2:10 The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground,
[and] keep silence: 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.
2:11 My eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my
liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the
daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings
swoon in the streets of the city.
2:12 They say to their mothers, Where [is] corn and wine? when
they swooned as the wounded in the streets of the city, when
their soul was poured out into their mothers' bosom.
2:13 What thing shall I take to witness for thee? what thing
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?
2:14 Thy prophets have seen vain and foolish things for thee:
and they have not revealed thy iniquity, to turn away thy
captivity; but have seen for thee false burdens and causes of
banishment.
2:15 All that pass by, clap [their] hands at thee; they hiss and
wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, [saying], [Is]
this the city that [men] call the Perfection of beauty, the Joy
of the whole earth?
2:16 All thy enemies have opened their mouth 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].
2:17 The LORD hath done [that] which he had devised; he hath
fulfilled his word that he had commanded in the days of old: he
hath thrown down, and hath not pitied: and he hath caused [thy]
enemy to rejoice over thee, he hath set up the horn of thy
adversaries.
2:18 Their heart cried to the LORD, O wall of the daughter of
Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night: give
thyself no rest; let not the apple of thy eye cease.
2:19 Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the
watches pour out thy heart like water before the face of the
LORD: lift up thy hands towards him for the life of thy young
children, that faint for hunger at the head of every street.
2:20 Behold, O LORD, and consider to whom thou hast done this.
Shall the women eat their fruit, children of a span long? shall
the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the
LORD?
2:21 The young and the old lie on the ground in the streets: my
virgins and my young men have fallen by the sword; thou hast
slain [them] in the day of thy anger; thou hast killed, [and]
not pitied.
2:22 Thou hast called as in a solemn day my terrors around, so
that in the day of the LORD'S anger none escaped nor remained:
those that I have swaddled and brought up, hath my enemy
consumed.
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