Lamentations 2:1-9

1How the Lord has 1covered the daughter of Zion With a cloud in His anger! He has 2cast from heaven to earth The 3glory of Israel, And has not remembered His 4footstool In the day of His anger.2The Lord has 5swallowed up; He has not spared All the habitations of Jacob. In His wrath He has 6thrown down The strongholds of the daughter of Judah; He has 7brought them down to the ground; He has 8profaned the kingdom and its princes.3In fierce anger He has cut off 9All the 10strength of Israel; He has 11drawn back His right hand From before the enemy. And He has 12burned in Jacob like a flaming fire Consuming round about.4He has bent His 13bow like an enemy; He has set His right hand like an adversary And slain all that were 14pleasant to the eye; In the tent of the daughter of Zion He has 15poured out His wrath like fire.5The Lord has become like an 16enemy. He has 17swallowed up Israel; He has swallowed up all its 18palaces, He has destroyed its strongholds And 19multiplied in the daughter of Judah Mourning and moaning.6And He has violently treated His 20tabernacle like a garden booth; He has 21destroyed His appointed 22meeting place. The Lord has 23caused to be forgotten The appointed feast and sabbath in Zion, And He has 24despised king and priest In the indignation of His anger.7The Lord has 25rejected His altar, He has abandoned His sanctuary; He 26has delivered into the hand of the enemy The walls of her palaces. They have made a 27noise in the house of the Lord As in the day of an appointed feast.8The Lord 28determined to destroy The wall of the daughter of Zion. He has 29stretched out a line, He has not restrained His hand from 30destroying, And He has 31caused rampart and wall to lament; They have languished together.9Her 32gates have sunk into the ground, He has destroyed and broken her bars. Her king and her princes are among the nations; The 33law is no more. Also, her prophets find 34No vision from the Lord.