Lamentations 2:1-9 ▼

1 How the Lord {Adonai} has covered the Daughter of Zion with the cloud of His anger! He has cast the glory of Israel (he wrestles with God) from heaven to earth. He has abandoned His footstool in the day of His anger.

2 Without pity the Lord {Adonai} has swallowed up all the dwellings of Jacob (he grasps the heel). In His wrath He has demolished the fortified cities of the Daughter of Judah (praised). He brought to the ground and defiled her kingdom and its princes.

3 In fierce anger He has cut off every horn (all the strength) of Israel (he wrestles with God) and withdrawn His right hand at the approach of the enemy. He has burned in Jacob (he grasps the heel) like a flaming fire that consumes everything around it.

4 He has bent His bow like an enemy; His right hand is positioned. Like a foe He has killed all who were pleasing to the eye; He has poured out His wrath like fire on the tent of the Daughter of Zion.

5 The Lord {Adonai} is like an enemy; He has swallowed up Israel (he wrestles with God). He has swallowed up all her palaces and destroyed her strongholds. He has multiplied mourning and lamentation for the Daughter of Judah (praised).

6 He has laid waste His tabernacle like a garden booth; He has destroyed His place of meeting. The LORD {YHWH} has made Zion forget her appointed feasts and Sabbaths. In His fierce anger He has despised both king and priest.

7 The Lord {Adonai} has rejected His altar; He has abandoned His sanctuary; He has delivered the walls of her palaces into the hand of the enemy. They have raised a shout in the house of the LORD {YHWH} as on the day of an appointed feast.

8 The LORD {YHWH} determined to destroy the wall of the Daughter of Zion. He stretched out a measuring line and did not withdraw His hand from destroying. He made the ramparts and walls lament; together they waste away.

9 Her gates have sunk into the ground; He has destroyed and shattered their bars. Her king and her princes are exiled among the nations, the law is no more, and even her prophets find no vision from the LORD {YHWH}.