Study Desk

How the Lord has ^(F1)(C1)covered the daughter of Zion With a cloud in His anger! He has ^(C2)hurled The ^(C3)glory of Israel from heaven to earth, And has not remembered His ^(C4)footstool In the day of His anger.

The Lord has ^(F1)(C1)destroyed; He has not spared All the settlements of Jacob. In His wrath He has ^(C2)overthrown The strongholds of the daughter of Judah, He has ^(C3)hurled them down to the ground; He has ^(C4)profaned the kingdom and its leaders.

In fierce anger He has cut off ^(F1)All the ^(C1)strength of Israel; He has ^(C2)pulled back His right hand From the enemy. And He has ^(C3)burned in Jacob like a flaming fire Consuming on all sides.

He has bent His ^(C1)bow like an enemy; His right hand is positioned like an adversary, And He has killed everything that was ^(C2)pleasant to the eye. In the tent of the daughter of Zion He has ^(C3)poured out His wrath like fire.

The Lord has become like an ^(C1)enemy. He has ^(C2)engulfed Israel; He has engulfed all its ^(C3)palaces, He has destroyed its strongholds And ^(C4)caused great mourning and grieving in the daughter of Judah.

And He has treated His ^(F1)tabernacle violently, like a despised garden; He has ^(C1)destroyed His appointed ^(F2)meeting place. The LORD has ^(C2)caused The appointed feast and Sabbath in Zion to be forgotten, And He has ^(C3)despised king and priest In the indignation of His anger.

The Lord has ^(C1)rejected His altar, He has ^(F1)repudiated His sanctuary; He ^(C2)has handed over The walls of her palaces to the enemy. They have made a ^(C3)noise in the house of the LORD As on the day of an appointed feast.

The LORD determined to destroy The wall of the daughter of Zion. He has ^(C1)stretched out a line, He has not restrained His hand from ^(F1)destroying, And He has ^(C2)caused rampart and wall to mourn; They have languished together.

Her ^(C1)gates have sunk into the ground, He has destroyed and broken her bars. Her king and her leaders are among the nations; The ^(C2)Law is gone. Her prophets, too, find ^(C3)No vision from the LORD.