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How the Lord has ^(a)covered the daughter of Zion With a cloud in His anger! He has ^(b)cast from heaven to earth The ^(c)glory of Israel, And has not remembered His ^(d)footstool In the day of His anger.

The Lord has ^(e)swallowed up; He has not spared All the habitations of Jacob. In His wrath He has ^(f)thrown down The strongholds of the daughter of Judah; He has ^(g)brought them down to the ground; He has ^(h)profaned the kingdom and its princes.

In fierce anger He has cut off ^[a]All the ⁽ⁱ⁾strength of Israel; He has ^(j)drawn back His right hand From before the enemy. And He has ^(k)burned in Jacob like a flaming fire Consuming round about.

He has bent His ^(l)bow like an enemy; He has set His right hand like an adversary And slain all that were ^(m)pleasant to the eye; In the tent of the daughter of Zion He has ⁽ⁿ⁾poured out His wrath like fire.

The Lord has become like an ^(o)enemy. He has ^(p)swallowed up Israel; He has swallowed up all its ^(q)palaces, He has destroyed its strongholds And ^(r)multiplied in the daughter of Judah Mourning and moaning.

And He has violently treated His ^[b]tabernacle like a garden booth; He has ^(s)destroyed His appointed ^[c]meeting place. The Lord has ^(t)caused to be forgotten The appointed feast and sabbath in Zion, And He has ^(u)despised king and priest In the indignation of His anger.

The Lord has ^(v)rejected His altar, He has abandoned His sanctuary; He ^(w)has delivered into the hand of the enemy The walls of her palaces. They have made a ^(x)noise in the house of the Lord As in the day of an appointed feast.

The Lord ^[d]determined to destroy The wall of the daughter of Zion. He has ^(y)stretched out a line, He has not restrained His hand from ^[e]destroying, And He has ^(z)caused rampart and wall to lament; They have languished together.

Her ^(aa)gates have sunk into the ground, He has destroyed and broken her bars. Her king and her princes are among the nations; The ^(ab)law is no more. Also, her prophets find ^(ac)No vision from the Lord .

The elders of the daughter of Zion ^(ad)Sit on the ground, they ^(ae)are silent. They have thrown ^(af)dust on their heads; They have girded themselves with ^(ag)sackcloth. The ^(ah)virgins of Jerusalem Have bowed their heads to the ground.

My ^(ai)eyes fail because of tears, My ^[f](aj)spirit is greatly troubled; My ^[g](ak)heart is poured out on the earth ^(al)Because of the ^[h]destruction of the daughter of my people, When ^(am)little ones and infants faint In the streets of the city.

They say to their mothers, "^(an)Where is grain and wine?" As they faint like a wounded man In the streets of the city, As their ^(ao)life is poured out On their mothers' bosom.

How shall I admonish you? To what ^(ap)shall I compare you, O daughter of Jerusalem? To what shall I liken you as I comfort you, O ^(aq)virgin daughter of Zion? For your ^[i]ruin is as vast as the sea; Who can ^(ar)heal you?

Your ^(as)prophets have seen for you False and foolish visions; And they have not ^(at)exposed your iniquity So as to restore you from captivity, But they have ^(au)seen for you false and misleading ^[j]oracles.

All who pass along the way ^(av)Clap their hands in derision at you; They ^(aw)hiss and shake their heads At the daughter of Jerusalem, "Is this the city of which they said, ‘^(ax)The perfection of beauty, ^(ay)A joy to all the earth'?"

All ^(az)your enemies Have opened their mouths wide against you; They hiss and ^(ba)gnash their teeth. They say, "We have ^(bb)swallowed her up! Surely this is the ^(bc)day for which we waited; We have reached it, we have seen it."

The Lord has ^(bd)done what He purposed; He has accomplished His word Which He commanded from days of old. He has thrown down ^(be)without sparing, And He has caused the enemy to ^(bf)rejoice over you; He has ^(bg)exalted the ^[k]might of your adversaries.

Their ^(bh)heart cried out to the Lord, "O ^(bi)wall of the daughter of Zion, Let your ^(bj)tears run down like a river day and night; Give yourself no relief, Let ^[l]your eyes have no rest.

"Arise, cry aloud in the ^(bk)night At the beginning of the night watches; ^(bl)Pour out your heart like water Before the presence of the Lord; Lift up your hands to Him For the ^(bm)life of your little ones Who are ^(bn)faint because of hunger At the head of every street."

See, O Lord , and look! With ^(bo)whom have You dealt thus? Should women ^(bp)eat their ^[m]offspring, The little ones who were ^[n]born healthy? Should ^(bq)priest and prophet be slain In the sanctuary of the Lord?

On the ground in the streets Lie ^(br)young and old; My ^(bs)virgins and my young men Have fallen by the sword. You have slain them in the day of Your anger, You have slaughtered, ^(bt)not sparing.

You called as in the day of an appointed feast My ^(bu)terrors on every side; And there was ^(bv)no one who escaped or survived In the day of the Lord's anger. Those ^(bw)whom I ^[o]bore and reared, My enemy annihilated them.