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Jehovah willed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion; He has stretched out a line. He has not withdrawn His hand from swallowing; and He made rampart and wall lament; they languish together.

Jehovah has done what He purposed; He fulfilled His Word which He commanded from days of antiquity. He has dashed and not pitied. And He made the enemy to rejoice over you; He raised the horn of your foes.

I, the man, have seen affliction by the rod of His wrath.

Surely He turned against me; He turns His hand all the day.

He has trod His bow and set me up as a mark for the arrow.

He caused the sons of His quiver to enter into my inward parts.

It is by the kindnesses of Jehovah that we are not consumed, for His mercies are not ended.

It is good for a man that he bear a yoke in his youth.

He puts his mouth in the dust, if perhaps there is hope.

He gives his cheek to Him who strikes him; he is filled with reproach.

For though He causes grief, He will have pity according to His many kindnesses.

For He does not afflict from His heart, nor does He grieve the sons of man,

to crush all the prisoners of earth under His feet,

to wrong a man in his cause. This, the Lord does not see.

What? Should mankind complain, living man because of his sins?

The tongue of the nursling cleaves to his palate in thirst. The young children ask bread, but there is no breaking for them.

Jehovah has fulfilled His fury; He has poured out His fierce anger and has kindled a fire in Zion; and it has devoured its foundations.

The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of Jehovah, was captured in their pits; of whom we said, In His shadow we will live among the nations.

And I saw Him , like the color of polished bronze, looking like fire within it all around. From the appearance of His loins and upward, and from the appearance of His loins and downward, Isaw Him looking like fire; and brightnessto it all around.

And the Spirit lifted me up, and I heard behind me a sound of a great tumult, saying , Blessed be the glory of Jehovah from His place!