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

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

The Lord has rejected His altar, He has repudiated His sanctuary; He has handed over The walls of her palaces to the enemy. They have made a 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 stretched out a line, He has not restrained His hand from destroying, And He has caused rampart and wall to mourn; They have languished together.

The LORD has done what He determined; He has accomplished His word Which He commanded from days of old. He has torn down without sparing, And He has helped the enemy to rejoice over you; He has exalted the might of your adversaries.

I am the man who has seen misery Because of the rod of His wrath.

Indeed, He has turned His hand against me Repeatedly all the day.

He bent His bow And took aim at me as a target for the arrow.

He made the arrows of His quiver Enter my inward parts.

The LORD'S acts of mercy indeed do not end, For His compassions do not fail.

It is good for a man to bear The yoke in his youth.

Let him put his mouth in the dust; Perhaps there is hope.

Let him give his cheek to the one who is going to strike him; Let him be filled with shame.

For if He causes grief, Then He will have compassion In proportion to His abundant mercy.

To defraud someone in his lawsuit— Of these things the Lord does not approve.

Of what can any living mortal, or any man, Complain in view of his sins?

The LORD has expended His wrath, He has poured out His fierce anger; And He has kindled a fire in Zion, And it has consumed its foundations.

The breath of our nostrils, the LORD'S anointed, Was captured in their pits, Of whom we had said, "In his shadow We shall live among the nations."

Then I noticed from the appearance of His waist and upward something like gleaming metal that looked like fire all around within it, and from the appearance of His waist and downward I saw something like fire; and there was a radiance around Him.

Then the Spirit lifted me up, and I heard a great rumbling sound behind me: "Blessed be the glory of the LORD from His place!"