Lamentations 2:1-7 (Today's New International Version)

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1 How the Lord has covered Daughter Zion with the cloud of his anger^a !¹ He has hurled down the splendor of Israel from heaven to earth; he has not remembered his footstool² in the day of his anger.³ 2 Without pity⁴ the Lord has swallowed⁵ up all the dwellings of Jacob; in his wrath he has torn down the strongholds⁶ of Daughter Judah. He has brought her kingdom and its princes down to the ground⁷ in dishonor. 3 In fierce anger he has cut off every horn^b⁸ of Israel. He has withdrawn his right hand⁹ at the approach of the enemy. He has burned in Jacob like a flaming fire that consumes everything around it.¹⁰ 4 Like an enemy he has strung his bow;¹¹ his right hand is ready. Like a foe he has slain all who were pleasing to the eye;¹² he has poured out his wrath¹³ like fire¹⁴ on the tent¹⁵ of Daughter Zion. 5 The Lord is like an enemy;¹⁶ he has swallowed up Israel. He has swallowed up all her palaces and destroyed her strongholds.¹⁷ He has multiplied mourning and lamentation¹⁸ for Daughter Judah.¹⁹ 6 He has laid waste his dwelling like a garden; he has destroyed²⁰ his place of meeting.²¹ The LORD has made Zion forget her appointed festivals and her Sabbaths;²² in his fierce anger he has spurned both king and priest.²³ 7 The Lord has rejected his altar and abandoned his sanctuary.²⁴ He has given the walls of her palaces²⁵ into the hands of the enemy; they have raised a shout in the house of the LORD as on the day of an appointed festival.²⁶

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