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  • God's Anger over Jerusalem

    א

    How hath the Lord in his anger covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud! He hath cast down from the heavens unto the earth the beauty of Israel, and remembered not his footstool in the day of his anger.
  • The Lord Has Destroyed Without Pity

    How the Lord in his anger
    has set the daughter of Zion under a cloud!
    He has cast down from heaven to earth
    the splendor of Israel;
    he has not remembered his footstool
    in the day of his anger.
  • ב

    The Lord hath swallowed up all the dwellings of Jacob, and hath not spared; he hath thrown down in his wrath the strongholds of the daughter of Judah: he hath brought [them] down to the ground; he hath profaned the kingdom and the princes thereof.
  • The Lord has swallowed up without mercy
    all the habitations of Jacob;
    in his wrath he has broken down
    the strongholds of the daughter of Judah;
    he has brought down to the ground in dishonor
    the kingdom and its rulers.
  • ג

    He hath cut off in fierce anger all the horn of Israel: he hath withdrawn his right hand from before the enemy; and he burned up Jacob like a flaming fire, devouring round about.
  • He has cut down in fierce anger
    all the might of Israel;
    he has withdrawn from them his right hand
    in the face of the enemy;
    he has burned like a flaming fire in Jacob,
    consuming all around.
  • ד

    He hath bent his bow like an enemy; he stood with his right hand as an adversary, and hath slain all that was pleasant to the eye: in the tent of the daughter of Zion, he hath poured out his fury like fire.
  • He has bent his bow like an enemy,
    with his right hand set like a foe;
    and he has killed all who were delightful in our eyes
    in the tent of the daughter of Zion;
    he has poured out his fury like fire.
  • ה

    The Lord is become as an enemy: he hath swallowed up Israel; he hath swallowed up all her palaces; he hath destroyed his strongholds, and hath multiplied in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.
  • The Lord has become like an enemy;
    he has swallowed up Israel;
    he has swallowed up all its palaces;
    he has laid in ruins its strongholds,
    and he has multiplied in the daughter of Judah
    mourning and lamentation.
  • ו

    And he hath violently cast down his enclosure as a garden; he hath destroyed his place of assembly: Jehovah hath caused set feast and sabbath to be forgotten in Zion, and hath despised in the indignation of his anger king and priest.
  • He has laid waste his booth like a garden,
    laid in ruins his meeting place;
    the Lord has made Zion forget
    festival and Sabbath,
    and in his fierce indignation has spurned king and priest.
  • ז

    The Lord hath cast off his altar, he hath rejected his sanctuary; he hath given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces: they have made a noise in the house of Jehovah, as on the day of a set feast.
  • The Lord has scorned his altar,
    disowned his sanctuary;
    he has delivered into the hand of the enemy
    the walls of her palaces;
    they raised a clamor in the house of the Lord
    as on the day of festival.
  • ח

    Jehovah hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion: he hath stretched out the line, he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying; and he hath made the rampart and the wall to lament: they languish together.
  • The Lord determined to lay in ruins
    the wall of the daughter of Zion;
    he stretched out the measuring line;
    he did not restrain his hand from destroying;
    he caused rampart and wall to lament;
    they languished together.
  • ט

    Her gates are sunk into the ground; he hath destroyed and broken her bars. Her king and her princes are among the nations: the law is no [more]; her prophets also find no vision from Jehovah.
  • Her gates have sunk into the ground;
    he has ruined and broken her bars;
    her king and princes are among the nations;
    the law is no more,
    and her prophets find
    no vision from the Lord.
  • י

    The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, they keep silence; they have cast dust upon their heads, they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their head to the ground.
  • The elders of the daughter of Zion
    sit on the ground in silence;
    they have thrown dust on their heads
    and put on sackcloth;
    the young women of Jerusalem
    have bowed their heads to the ground.
  • כ

    Mine eyes are consumed with tears, my bowels are troubled; my liver is poured upon the earth, because of the ruin of the daughter of my people; because infant and suckling swoon in the streets of the city.
  • My eyes are spent with weeping;
    my stomach churns;
    my bile is poured out to the ground
    because of the destruction of the daughter of my people,
    because infants and babies faint
    in the streets of the city.
  • ל

    They say to their mothers, Where is corn and wine? when they swoon as the wounded in the streets of the city; when they pour out their soul into their mothers' bosom.
  • They cry to their mothers,
    “Where is bread and wine?”
    as they faint like a wounded man
    in the streets of the city,
    as their life is poured out
    on their mothers’ bosom.
  • מ

    What shall I take to witness for thee? what shall I liken unto thee, daughter of Jerusalem? What shall I equal to thee, that I may comfort thee, virgin daughter of Zion? For thy ruin is great as the sea: who will heal thee?
  • What can I say for you, to what compare you,
    O daughter of Jerusalem?
    What can I liken to you, that I may comfort you,
    O virgin daughter of Zion?
    For your ruin is vast as the sea;
    who can heal you?
  • נ

    Thy prophets have seen vanity and folly for thee; and they have not revealed thine iniquity, to turn away thy captivity; but have seen for thee burdens of falsehood and causes of expulsion.
  • Your prophets have seen for you
    false and deceptive visions;
    they have not exposed your iniquity
    to restore your fortunes,
    but have seen for you oracles
    that are false and misleading.
  • ס

    All that pass by clap [their] hands at thee; they hiss and shake their head at the daughter of Jerusalem: Is this the city which they called, The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?
  • All who pass along the way
    clap their hands at you;
    they hiss and wag their heads
    at the daughter of Jerusalem:
    “Is this the city that was called
    the perfection of beauty,
    the joy of all the earth?”
  • פ

    All thine enemies open their mouth against thee, they hiss and gnash the teeth: they say, We have swallowed [her] up; this is forsooth the day that we looked for: we have found, we have seen [it].
  • All your enemies
    rail against you;
    they hiss, they gnash their teeth,
    they cry: “We have swallowed her!
    Ah, this is the day we longed for;
    now we have it; we see it!”
  • ע

    Jehovah hath done what he had devised; he hath fulfilled his word which he had commanded from the days of old: he hath thrown down, and hath not spared, and he hath caused the enemy to rejoice over thee; he hath set up the horn of thine adversaries.
  • The Lord has done what he purposed;
    he has carried out his word,
    which he commanded long ago;
    he has thrown down without pity;
    he has made the enemy rejoice over you
    and exalted the might of your foes.
  • צ

    Their heart cried unto the Lord. O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a torrent day and night: give thyself no respite; let not the apple of thine eye rest.
  • Their heart cried to the Lord.
    O wall of the daughter of Zion,
    let tears stream down like a torrent
    day and night!
    Give yourself no rest,
    your eyes no respite!
  • ק

    Arise, cry out in the night, in the beginning of the watches; pour out thy heart like water before the face of the Lord: lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, who faint from hunger at the top of all the streets.
  • “Arise, cry out in the night,
    at the beginning of the night watches!
    Pour out your heart like water
    before the presence of the Lord!
    Lift your hands to him
    for the lives of your children,
    who faint for hunger
    at the head of every street.”
  • ר

    See, Jehovah, and consider to whom thou hast done this! Shall the women eat their fruit, the infants that they nursed? Shall priest and prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?
  • Look, O Lord, and see!
    With whom have you dealt thus?
    Should women eat the fruit of their womb,
    the children of their tender care?
    Should priest and prophet be killed
    in the sanctuary of the Lord?
  • ש

    The child and the old man lie on the ground in the streets; my virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword: thou hast slain [them] in the day of thine anger; thou hast killed, thou hast not spared.
  • In the dust of the streets
    lie the young and the old;
    my young women and my young men
    have fallen by the sword;
    you have killed them in the day of your anger,
    slaughtering without pity.
  • ת

    Thou hast called up, as on the day of a set feast, my terrors on every side; and in the day of Jehovah's anger there was none that escaped or remained: those that I have nursed and brought up hath mine enemy consumed.
  • You summoned as if to a festival day
    my terrors on every side,
    and on the day of the anger of the Lord
    no one escaped or survived;
    those whom I held and raised
    my enemy destroyed.

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