Lamentations 2
2
Judgment on Jerusalem
א Alef
1How the Lord has overshadowed
Daughter Zion with His anger!
He has thrown down Israel’s glory
from heaven to earth.
He has abandoned His footstool # Either the ark of the covenant or the temple # 1Ch 28:2; Ps 99:5; 132:7
in the day of His anger. # Jb 20:28; Ps 110:5; Zph 2:2-3
ב Bet
2Without compassion # Jb 16:13; Lm 3:43; Ezk 8:18 the Lord has swallowed up
all the dwellings of Jacob.
In His wrath He has demolished
the fortified cities # Is 2:12,15 of Daughter Judah.
He brought them to the ground
and defiled the kingdom and its leaders. # Ps 89:39; Is 43:28; 47:6
ג Gimel
3He has cut off every horn # Ps 75:5,10; Jr 48:25 of Israel
in His burning anger
and withdrawn His right hand # Ex 6:6; Dt 4:34
in the presence of the enemy.
He has blazed against Jacob like a flaming fire
that consumes everything. # Dt 4:24; Heb 12:29
ד Dalet
4He has bent His bow like an enemy; # Ps 7:12; Lm 3:12
His right hand is positioned like an adversary.
He has killed everyone who was loved, # Lit killed all the delights of the eye ; Ezk 24:16
pouring out His wrath like fire
on the tent of Daughter Zion.
ה He
5The Lord is like an enemy;
He has swallowed up Israel.
He swallowed up all its palaces
and destroyed its fortified cities.
He has multiplied mourning and lamentation
within Daughter Judah. # Is 29:2
ו Vav
6He has done violence to His temple # Lit booth
as if it were a garden booth,
destroying His place of meeting. # Ps 74:4
The Lord has abolished
appointed festivals and Sabbaths in Zion.
He has despised king and priest
in His fierce anger.
ז Zayin
7The Lord has rejected His altar,
repudiated His sanctuary; # Ps 89:39
He has handed the walls of her palaces
over to the enemy.
They have raised a shout in the house of the Lord
as on the day of an appointed festival.
ח Khet
8The Lord determined to destroy
the wall of Daughter Zion.
He stretched out a measuring line # 2Kg 21:13; Is 28:17; 34:11,17
and did not restrain Himself from destroying.
He made the ramparts and walls grieve;
together they waste away.
ט Tet
9Zion’s gates have fallen to the ground; # Neh 1:3; Jr 14:2
He has destroyed and shattered the bars on her gates.
Her king and her leaders live among the nations,
instruction # Or the law is no more,
and even her prophets receive
no vision from the Lord. # Ezk 7:26; Mc 3:6
י Yod
10The elders of Daughter Zion
sit on the ground in silence.
They have thrown dust on their heads # Gn 37:34; Jos 7:6; Neh 9:1; Jb 2:12-13; Ezk 27:30
and put on sackcloth.
The young women of Jerusalem
have bowed their heads to the ground. # Jb 10:15; Is 58:5
כ Kaf
11My eyes are worn out from weeping; # Ps 69:3; Jr 9:1; 14:17; Lm 3:48-49
I am churning within.
My heart is poured out in grief # Lit My liver is poured out on the ground # Ps 22:14; Jr 4:19
because of the destruction of my dear people, # Lm 3:48
because children and infants faint
in the streets of the city. # Jr 44:7
ל Lamed
12They cry out to their mothers:
Where is the grain and wine? # Dt 28:51; Hs 2:8-9; 7:14
as they faint like the wounded
in the streets of the city,
as their lives fade away
in the arms of their mothers.
מ Mem
13What can I say on your behalf?
What can I compare you to, Daughter Jerusalem?
What can I liken you to,
so that I may console you, Virgin Daughter Zion?
For your ruin is as vast as the sea.
Who can heal you? # Nah 3:19
נ Nun
14Your prophets saw visions for you
that were empty and deceptive; # Jr 5:12-13; 23:9-40; 28:1-4; 29:29-32; Ezk 13:8-16
they did not reveal your guilt
and so restore your fortunes. # Dt 30:1-3; Jr 29:11-14; 30:1-3
They saw oracles for you
that were empty and misleading.
ס Samek
15All who pass by
scornfully clap their hands # Nm 24:10; Ezk 25:6 at you.
They mock # Lit hiss # 1Kg 9:8; Jr 19:8 and shake their heads # Ps 22:7; 109:25; Mk 15:29
at Daughter Jerusalem:
Is this the city that was called
the perfection of beauty, # Ps 50:2
the joy of the whole earth? # Ps 48:2
פ Pe
16All your enemies
open their mouths against you. # Dt 28:37; Jb 16:10; Ps 22:13; Lm 3:46
They hiss and gnash their teeth, # Jb 16:9; Ps 35:16; 37:12
saying, “We have swallowed her up. # Lm 2:2,5,8
This is the day we have waited for!
We have lived to see it.”
ע Ayin
17The Lord has done what He planned;
He has accomplished His decree,
which He ordained in days of old.
He has demolished without compassion, # Lm 2:2,21; 3:43; Ezk 7:8-9
letting the enemy gloat over you
and exalting the horn of your adversaries.
צ Tsade
18The hearts of the people cry out to the Lord.
Wall of Daughter Zion, # Lm 2:8
let your tears run down like a river
day and night. # Jr 4:31; 14:17
Give yourself no relief
and your # Lit and the daughter of your eyes no rest.
ק Qof
19Arise, cry out in the night
from the first watch of the night.
Pour out your heart like water
before the Lord’s presence. # Ps 42:4; 62:8; 77:2; 84:2; 142:2
Lift up your hands to Him
for the lives of your children
who are fainting from hunger
on the corner of every street. # Is 51:20
ר Resh
20Lord, look and consider
who You have done this to.
Should women eat their own children, # Lv 26:27-29; Dt 28:53-57; 2Kg 6:24-31; Jr 19:9; Lm 4:10
the infants they have nurtured? # Or infants in a healthy condition ; Hb obscure
Should priests and prophets
be killed in the Lord’s sanctuary?
ׁש Shin
21Both young and old
are lying on the ground in the streets.
My young men and women
have fallen by the sword.
You have killed them in the day of Your anger,
slaughtering without compassion. # Lm 2:2,17; 3:43
ת Tav
22You summoned my attackers # Or terrors on every side, # Ps 31:13; Jr 6:25; 20:10
as if for an appointed festival day;
on the day of the Lord’s anger
no one escaped or survived.
My enemy has destroyed
those I nurtured # Or I bore healthy ; Hb obscure and reared.
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Lamentations 2
2
Lament for Zion
1How my Lord has clouded over the daughter of Zion in His anger! He hurled down the splendor of Israel from heaven to earth. He has not remembered His footstool in the day of His anger.
2My Lord has mercilessly swallowed up all the dwellings of Jacob. He threw down the strongholds of the daughter of Judah in His fury. He knocked to the ground and humiliated the kingdom and its princes.
3In fierce anger He has cut off every horn of Israel. He has withdrawn His right hand from before the enemy. He blazed against Jacob like raging fire, devouring everything around.
4He bent His bow like an enemy, set His right hand like a foe, and killed all those pleasant to the eye. In the tent of the daughter of Zion He has poured out His wrath like fire.
5My Lord is like an enemy. He has swallowed up Israel. He swallowed up all her citadels, destroyed her fortifications and multiplied mourning and moaning for the daughter of Judah.
6Like the garden He laid waste His dwelling, destroyed His appointed meeting place. Adonai has caused moed and Shabbat to be forgotten in Zion. In the indignation of His anger He spurned king and kohen.
7The Lord rejected His altar, despised His Sanctuary. He has delivered the walls of her citadels into the hand of the enemy. They raised a shout in the house of Adonai as if it were the day of a moed.
8Adonai resolved to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion. He stretched out a measuring line. He did not withdraw His hand from destroying. He caused rampart and wall to lament— together they languished away.
9Her gates sank into the ground. Her bars He destroyed and shattered. Her king and princes are among nations. There is no more Torah. Also her prophets find no vision from Adonai.
10The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground in silence. They threw dust on their heads and girded themselves with sackcloth. The maidens of Jerusalem have bowed their heads to the ground.
11My eyes are filled with tears. My stomach is in torment. My heart is poured out on the ground over the destruction of the daughter of my people— as young children and infants languish in the city squares.
12They say to their mothers, “Where is grain and wine?” as they faint like a wounded soldier in the city squares, as their lives ebb away in their mothers’ bosom.
13How can I admonish you? To what can I compare you, O daughter of Jerusalem? To what can I liken you, so that I might console you, O virgin daughter of Zion? For your wound is as deep as the sea! Who can heal you?
14Your prophets have seen for you false and worthless visions. They did not expose your iniquity, so as to restore your captivity. Rather, they have seen for you false and worthless oracles.
15All who pass your way clap their hands at you. They hiss and shake their heads at the daughter of Jerusalem. “Is this the city of which they said, ‘The perfection of beauty,’ ‘the joy of the whole earth’?”
16All your enemies opened their mouth wide against you; they hissed and gnashed their teeth, and say, “We have swallowed her up! Surely this is the day we have waited for; we have lived to see it!”
17Adonai has done what He planned; He has fulfilled His word that He commanded from days of old. He has overthrown you without pity, He enabled the enemy to gloat over you. He has exalted the horn of your foes.
18Their heart cried out to the Lord: O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night. Give yourself no relief, your eyes no rest.
19Arise! Cry out in the night at the beginning of the watches! Pour out your heart like water before the presence of the Lord. Lift up your hands to Him for the life of your children who faint from hunger at the head of every street.
20Look, Adonai, and consider with whom You have dealt so severely! Should women eat their offspring, their healthy newborn infants? Should kohen and prophet be slain in the Sanctuary of the Lord?
21On the ground in the streets lie both young and old. My maidens and my young men have fallen by the sword. You slew them in the day of Your anger. You slaughtered them without pity.
22As on a moed day, You summon against me terrors on every side. On the day of the wrath of Adonai no one escaped or survived. Those whom I bore and raised my enemy has destroyed.
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