Lamentations 2:1-9

1How the Lord has 12covered the daughter of Zion With a cloud in His anger! He has 3hurled The 4glory of Israel from heaven to earth, And has not remembered His 5footstool In the day of His anger.2The Lord has 67destroyed; He has not spared All the settlements of Jacob. In His wrath He has 8overthrown The strongholds of the daughter of Judah, He has 9hurled them down to the ground; He has 10profaned the kingdom and its leaders.3In fierce anger He has cut off 11All the 12strength of Israel; He has 13pulled back His right hand From the enemy. And He has 14burned in Jacob like a flaming fire Consuming on all sides.4He has bent His 15bow like an enemy; His right hand is positioned like an adversary, And He has killed everything that was 16pleasant to the eye. In the tent of the daughter of Zion He has 17poured out His wrath like fire.5The Lord has become like an 18enemy. He has 19engulfed Israel; He has engulfed all its 20palaces, He has destroyed its strongholds And 21caused great mourning and grieving in the daughter of Judah.6And He has treated His 22tabernacle violently, like a despised garden; He has 23destroyed His appointed 24meeting place. The Lord has 25caused The appointed feast and Sabbath in Zion to be forgotten, And He has 26despised king and priest In the indignation of His anger.7The Lord has 27rejected His altar, He has 28repudiated His sanctuary; He 29has handed over The walls of her palaces to the enemy. They have made a 30noise in the house of the Lord As on the day of an appointed feast.8The Lord determined to destroy The wall of the daughter of Zion. He has 31stretched out a line, He has not restrained His hand from 32destroying, And He has 33caused rampart and wall to mourn; They have languished together.9Her 34gates have sunk into the ground, He has destroyed and broken her bars. Her king and her leaders are among the nations; The 35Law is gone. Her prophets, too, find 36No vision from the Lord.