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stood with his right hand as an adversary, and slew all
that were
pleasant to the eye in the tabernacle
of the daughter of Zion: he poured out his fury like fire.
5
The Lord was as an enemy: he hath
swallowed up Israel, he hath swallowed up all her palaces: he hath destroyed his strong holds, and
hath increased in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.
6
And he hath violently taken
away his tabernacle, as
if it were of
a garden: he hath destroyed his places of the assembly: the
L
ORD
hath caused the solemn feasts and sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion, and hath despised in the
indignation of his anger the king and the priest.
7
The Lord hath cast off his altar, he hath abhorred
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 the L
ORD
, as in the day of a solemn feast.
8
The L
ORD
hath purposed to destroy
the wall of the daughter of Zion: he hath stretched out a line, he hath not withdrawn his hand from
destroying: therefore he made the rampart and the wall to lament; they languished together.
9
Her
gates are sunk into the ground; he hath destroyed and broken her bars: her king and her princes
are
among the Gentiles: the law
is
no
more;
her prophets also find no vision from the L
ORD
.
10
The
elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground,
and
keep silence: they have cast up dust upon
their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their
heads to the ground.
11
Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured
upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the
sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.
12
They say to their mothers, Where
is
corn and wine?
when they swooned as the wounded in the streets of the city, when their soul was poured out into
their mothers’ bosom.
13
What thing shall I take to witness for thee? what thing shall I liken to thee,
O daughter of Jerusalem? what shall I equal to thee, that I may comfort thee, O virgin daughter of
Zion? for thy breach is great like the sea: who can heal thee?
14
Thy prophets have seen vain and
foolish things for thee: and they have not discovered thine iniquity, to turn away thy captivity; but
have seen for thee false burdens and causes of banishment.
15
All that pass by clap
their
hands at
thee; they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem,
saying, Is
this the city that
men
call
The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?
16
All thine enemies have opened their mouth
against thee: they hiss and gnash the teeth: they say, We have swallowed
her
up: certainly this
is
the day that we looked for; we have found, we have seen
it.
17
The L
ORD
hath done
that
which he
had devised; he hath fulfilled his word that he had commanded in the days of old: he hath thrown
down, and hath not pitied: and he hath caused
thine
enemy to rejoice over thee, he hath set up the
horn of thine adversaries.
18
Their heart cried unto the Lord, O wall of the daughter of Zion, let
tears run down like a river day and night: give thyself no rest; let not the apple of thine eye cease.
19
Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out thine heart like water before
the face of the Lord: lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint for
hunger in the top of every street.
20
Behold, O L
ORD
, and consider to whom thou hast done this. Shall the women eat their fruit,
and
children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?
21
The young and the old lie on the ground in the streets: my virgins and my young men are fallen
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