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LAM-2:1 How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a
cloud in his anger, [and] cast down from heaven unto the earth
the beauty of Israel, and remembered not his footstool in the
day of his anger!
LAM-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 the princes thereof.
LAM-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 round about.
LAM-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.
LAM-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.
LAM-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 hath despised in the indignation of
his anger the king and the priest.
LAM-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.
LAM-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withdrawn his hand from destroying: therefore he made the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.
LAM-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.
LAM-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.
LAM-2:11 Mine 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.
LAM-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.
LAM-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?
LAM-2:14 Thy prophets have seen vain and foolish things for thee:
and they have not discovered thine iniquity, to turn away thy
captivity; but have seen for thee false burdens and causes of
banishment.
LAM-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?
LAM-2:16 All thine 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].
LAM-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
[thine] enemy to rejoice over thee, he hath set up the horn of
thine adversaries.
LAM-2:18 Their heart cried unto 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 thine eye cease.
LAM-2:19 Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the
watches pour out thine heart like water before the face of the
Lord: lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young
children, that faint for hunger in the top of every street.
LAM-2:20 Behold, O LORD, and consider to whom thou hast 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?
LAM-2:21 The young and the old lie on the ground in the streets:
my virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword; thou hast
slain [them] in the day of thine anger; thou hast killed, [and]
not pitied.
LAM-2:22 Thou hast called as in a solemn day my terrors round
about, so that in the day of the LORD'S anger none escaped nor
remained: those that I have swaddled and brought up hath mine
enemy consumed.
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