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How the Lord has covered the daughter of Zion With a cloud in His anger! He has cast from heaven to earth The glory of Israel, And has not remembered His footstool* In the day of His anger.
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The Lord has swallowed up; He has not sparedAll the habitations of Jacob. In His wrath He has throwndown The strongholds of the daughter of Judah; He has brought them down to the ground; He has profaned the kingdom and its princes.
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In fierceanger He has cutoffAll the strength of Israel; He has drawnback His righthand From before the enemy. And He has burned in Jacob like a flamingfireConsumingroundabout.
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He has bent His bow like an enemy; He has set His righthand like an adversary And slainall that were pleasant to the eye; In the tent of the daughter of Zion He has poured out His wrath like fire.
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The Lord has become like an enemy. He has swallowed up Israel; He has swallowed up all its palaces, He has destroyed its strongholds And multiplied in the daughter of JudahMourning and moaning.
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And He has violentlytreated His tabernacle like a garden booth; He has destroyed His appointedmeetingplace. The LORD has caused to be forgotten The appointedfeast and sabbath in Zion, And He has despisedking and priest In the indignation of His anger.
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The Lord has rejected His altar, He has abandoned His sanctuary; He has delivered 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 an appointedfeast.