Lamentations 2
2
1How has the Lord-Adonai (The Father) [Greatest Above All Things] covered the daughter of Tziyon [parched place] with a cloud in his anger, [and] cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], and remembered not his footstool in the day of his anger!
2The Lord-Adonai (The Father) [Greatest Above All Things] has swallow (to approve, commend, accept)ed up all the habitations of Ya’akov [Heal of God], and has not pitied: he has thrown down in his wrath the strong holds of the daughter of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised]; he has brought [them] down to the ground: he has polluted the kingdom and the princes thereof.
3He has cut off in [his] fierce anger all the horn of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]: he has drawn back his right hand from before the enemy, and he burned against Ya’akov [Heal of God] like a flaming fire, [which] devours round about.
4He has bent his bow like an enemy: he stood with his right hand as an adversary, and killed all [that were] pleasant to the eye in the tabernacle of the daughter of Tziyon [parched place]: he poured out his fury like fire.
5The Lord-Adonai (The Father) [Greatest Above All Things] was as an enemy: he has swallow (to approve, commend, accept)ed up Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], he has swallow (to approve, commend, accept)ed up all her palaces: he has destroyed his strong holds, and has increased in the daughter of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] mourning and lamentation.
6And he has violently taken away his tabernacle, as [if it were of] a garden: he has destroyed his places of the assembly: the Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) has caused the solemn feasts and Shabbat to be forgotten in Tziyon [parched place], and has despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest.
7The Lord-Adonai (The Father) [Greatest Above All Things] has cast off his altar, he has abhorred his sanctuary, he has given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces; they have made a noise in the house of the Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), as in the day of a solemn feast.
8The Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) has purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Tziyon [parched place]: he has stretched out a line, he has not withdrawn his hand from destroying: therefore he made the fortification (defensive structure) and the wall to (to do entirely, do wholly) lament; they languished together.
9Her gates are sunk into the ground; he has 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-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).
10The elders of the daughter of Tziyon [parched place] sit upon the ground, [and] keep silence: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] hang down their heads to the ground.
11Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels (inward parts; affections) 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.
12They 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.
13How shall I admonish you? To what shall I compare youi? what thing shall I liken to youi, O daughter of Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace]? what shall I equal to youi, that I may comfort youi, O virgin daughter of Tziyon [parched place]? for youri breach (breaking forth; a break; opening, inlet) [is] great like the sea: who can heal youi?
14Your1s prophets have seen vain and foolish things for youi: and they have not discovered youri iniquity, to turn away youri captivity; but have seen for youi false burdens and causes of banishment.
15All that pass by clap [their] hands at youi; they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace], [saying, Is] this the city that [men] call The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?
16All youi enemies have opened their mouth against youi: they hiss and gnash the teeth: they say, We have swallow (to approve, commend, accept)ed [her] up: certainly this [is] the day that we looked for; we have found, we have seen [it].
17The Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) has done [that] which he had devised; he has fulfilled his word that he had commanded in the days of old: he has thrown down, and has not pitied: and he has caused [youi] enemy to rejoice over youi, he has set up the horn of youi adversaries.
18Their heart cried unto the Lord-Adonai (The Father) [Greatest Above All Things], O wall of the daughter of Tziyon [parched place], let tears run down like a river day and night: give yourself no rest; let not the apple of youi eye cease.
19Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out youi heart like water before the face of the Lord-Adonai (The Father) [Greatest Above All Things]: lift up youi hands toward him for the life of youi young children, that faint for hunger in the top of every street.
20Behold, O Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and consider to whom youi have done this. Shall the women eat their fruit, [and] children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord-Adonai (The Father) [Greatest Above All Things]?
21The young and the old lie on the ground in the streets: my virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword; youi have slain [them] in the day of youi anger; youi have killed, [and] not pitied.
22youi have called as in a solemn day my terrors round about, so that in the day of the Lord-Yehōvah’s [Messiah Pre-Incarnate] anger none escaped nor remained: those that I have swaddled and brought up has my enemy consumed.
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