Lamentations 2
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1 ALEPH. O how the Lord has covered the daughter of Zion with gloom in his fury! O how he has thrown down from heaven to earth the famous one of Israel, and he has not remembered his footstool in the day of his fury.
2 BETH. The Lord has cast down, and he has not been lenient, with all the beauties of Jacob. In his fury, he has destroyed the fortifications of the virgin of Judah, and he has thrown them down to the ground. He has polluted the kingdom and its leaders.
3 GHIMEL. In the anger of his fury, he has broken the entire horn of Israel. He has drawn back his right hand before the face of the enemy. And he has kindled within Jacob a flaming fire, devouring all around.
4 DALETH. He has bent his bow like an enemy. He has fixed his right hand like an adversary. And he has cut down all that was beautiful to behold in the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion. He has poured out his indignation like fire.
5 HE. The Lord has become like an enemy. He has thrown down Israel. He has thrown down all of his defenses. He has torn apart his fortifications. And he has filled the daughter of Judah with humbled men and humbled women.
6 VAU. And he has torn apart her tent like a garden. He has demolished her tabernacle. In Zion, the Lord has delivered feast and Sabbath into oblivion, and king and priest into disgrace, and into the indignation of his fury.
7 ZAIN. The Lord has pushed away his own altar. He has cursed his own sanctuary. He has delivered the walls of its towers into the hand of the enemy. They have made a noise in the house of the Lord, as if on the day of a solemnity.
8 HETH. The Lord has decided to tear down the wall of the daughter of Zion. He has stretched out his measuring line, and he has not turn away his hand from perdition. And the rampart has mourned, and with the wall it has been torn apart.
9 TETH. Her gates have been buried in the ground. He has ruined and crushed its bars. Her king and her princes are with the Gentiles. There is no law, and her prophets have found no vision from the Lord.
10 JOD. The elders of the daughter of Zion have become idle; they sit on the ground. They have sprinkled their heads with ashes. They have been wrapped with haircloth. The virgins of Jerusalem have cast their heads down to the ground.
11 CAPH. My eyes have exhausted their tears. My internal organs have become disturbed. My liver has been poured out on the earth, over the grief of the daughter of my people, when the little ones and the infants passed away in the streets of the town.
12 LAMED. They said to their mothers, "Where is the wheat and the wine?" when they fell like the wounded in the streets of the city, when they breathed out their lives into the bosoms of their mothers.
13 MEM. To what shall I compare you, or to what shall I liken you, O daughter of Jerusalem? To what shall I equate you, so as to console you, O virgin daughter of Zion? For your destruction is as great as the sea. Who will cure you?
14 NUN. Your prophets have seen false and foolish things for you. And they have not laid open your iniquity, so as to provoke you to repentance. Yet they have seen for you false revelations and banishments.
15 SAMECH. All those who passed by the way have clapped their hands over you. They have hissed and shook their heads over the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, "Is this the city of perfect dignity, the joy of all the earth?"
16 PHE. All your enemies have opened their mouth over you. They have hissed and gnashed their teeth, and they said: "We will devour her. Yes, this is the day we waited for. We have found it, we have seen it."
17 AIN. The Lord has done what he decided to do. He has fulfilled his word, which he instructed since the days of antiquity. He has destroyed, and he has not been lenient, and he has caused the enemy to rejoice over you, and he has exalted the horn of your adversaries.
18 SADE. Their heart cried out to the Lord from the walls of the daughter of Zion. Let tears run down like a torrent throughout the day and the night. Do not give rest to yourself, and do not allow the pupil of your eye to cease.
19 COPH. Rise up. Give praise in the night, in the first of the watches. Pour out your heart like water before the sight of the Lord. Lift up your hands to him on behalf of the souls of your little ones, who have passed away from famine at the head of all the crossroads.
20 RES. O Lord, see and consider those whom you have made into a such vintage. So then, shall women eat their own fruit, little ones measured by the palm of the hand? Shall priest and prophet be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?
21 SIN. The boy and the old man lie down on the ground outside. My virgins and my youths have fallen by the sword. You have slain them in the day of your fury. You have struck down, and you have not shown pity.
22 THAU. You have called, as if to a day of solemnity, those who would terrify me all around. And there was no one, in the day of the fury of the Lord, who escaped or was left behind. Those whom I educated and nourished, my enemy has consumed.
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Lamentations 2
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God’s Anger Over Jerusalem
1How the Lord has covered the daughter of Zion
with a cloud in His anger!
He has cast down from heaven to the earth
the beauty of Israel;
He has not remembered His footstool # Ps 99:5; 132:7
in the day of His anger.
2The Lord has swallowed up without mercy
all the habitations of Jacob;
in His wrath He has thrown down
the strongholds of the daughter of Judah;
He has brought them down to the ground; # Ps 89:39–40; La 2:17
He has profaned the kingdom and its princes.
3He has cut off in fierce anger
all the might of Israel; # Ps 75:5
He has drawn back His right hand # Ps 74:11
from before the enemy.
He has burned against Jacob
like a flaming fire, devouring all around.
4He has bent His bow like an enemy,
with his right hand set like an adversary;
He has killed all who were pleasant to His eye;
in the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion,
He has poured out His fury like fire. # Isa 42:25; Jer 7:20
5The Lord has become like an enemy; # Jer 30:14
He has swallowed up Israel,
He has swallowed up all her palaces; # La 2:2
He has destroyed her strongholds,
and has increased mourning and lamentation
in the daughter of Judah.
6He has violently taken away His tabernacle as if it were a garden;
He has destroyed His place of assembly;
the Lord has caused the solemn feasts and Sabbaths # La 1:4; Zep 3:18
to be forgotten in Zion.
In his fierce indignation He has despised the king and the priest.
7The Lord has scorned His altar,
He has disowned His sanctuary; # Ps 78:59–61
He has given up the walls of her palaces
into the hand of the enemy. # Ps 74:3–8
They have made a noise in the house of the Lord
as on the day of a solemn feast.
8The Lord has purposed to destroy
the wall of the daughter of Zion.
He has stretched out a line; # 2Ki 21:13
He has not withdrawn His hand from destroying;
therefore He caused the rampart and the wall to lament; # Isa 3:26
they languished together.
9Her gates have sunk into the ground;
He has destroyed and broken her bars. # Ne 1:3
Her king and her princes are among the nations; # Hos 3:4
the Law is no more,
and her prophets find
no vision from the Lord.
10The elders of the daughter of Zion
sit on the ground in silence;
they throw dust on their heads
and gird themselves with sackcloth.
The virgins of Jerusalem
bow their heads to the ground. # Job 2:12–13; Isa 3:26
11My eyes fail with tears,
my spirit is greatly troubled;
my bile is poured on the ground # Job 16:13
because of the destruction of the daughter of my people,
because the children and infants faint # La 1:16
in the streets of the city.
12They say to their mothers,
“Where is grain and wine?”
when they faint like a wounded man
in the streets of the city,
as their life is poured out
on their mothers’ bosom.
13What can I say for you,
to what shall I liken you,
O daughter of Jerusalem?
What shall I compare with you,
that I may comfort you,
O virgin daughter of Zion?
For your devastation is great like the sea;
who can heal you?
14Your prophets have seen for you
false and deceptive visions;
they have not revealed your iniquity, # Isa 58:1
to bring back your captives,
but have seen for you oracles
that are false and misleading. # Jer 5:31
15All who pass by
clap their hands at you;
they hiss and shake their heads # Jer 18:16
at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying,
“Is this the city that men call
the perfection of beauty,
the joy of the whole earth?” # Ps 48:2
16All your enemies
have opened their mouth against you; # Ps 35:21; La 3:46
they hiss and gnash their teeth.
They say, “We have swallowed her up!
Certainly this is the day that we longed for;
we have found it; we have seen it.”
17The Lord has done what He planned;
He has fulfilled His word
that He had commanded in the days of old.
He has thrown down and has not pitied, # Eze 5:11
and He has caused the enemy to rejoice over you;
He has exalted the power of your adversaries. # Ps 89:42
18Their heart cried to the Lord: # Ps 119:145
O wall of the daughter of Zion,
let your tears run down
like a river day and night; # Jer 9:1
give yourself no rest,
your eyes no respite!
19Arise, cry out in the night,
at the beginning of the watches;
pour out your heart like water
before the face of the Lord. # 1Sa 1:15; Ps 62:8; Isa 26:9
Lift your hands to Him
for the lives of your young children,
who faint for hunger
at the head of every street.
20Look, O Lord, and consider!
To whom have You done this?
Should the women eat their offspring, # Jer 19:9; La 4:10
the children who were born healthy?
Should the priest and the prophet be killed
in the sanctuary of the Lord?
21The young and the old lie
on the ground in the streets;
my virgins and my young men
have fallen by the sword; # 2Ch 36:17
You have killed them in the day of Your anger,
You have slaughtered and not pitied. # Jer 13:14
22You have invited as to a feast day the terrors all around; # Ps 31:13; Jer 6:25
in the day of the Lord’s anger
no one escaped or survived;
those whom I held and raised
my enemy destroyed.
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