Lam 2 | ABEn | STEP | ΑΛΕΦ O How [ 2 darkened 3 his anger 1 the lord ] for the daughter of Zion. He hurled down from out of heaven unto the earth the glory of Israel, and he remembered not the stool of his feet in a day of wrath of his rage.

Lamentations 2

CHAPTER 2 The LORD Destroys Israel and Judah

1 ΑΛΕΦ O How [²darkened ³his anger ¹the lord] for the daughter of Zion. He hurled down from out of heaven unto the earth the glory of Israel, and he remembered not the stool of his feet in a day of wrath of his rage. 2 ΒΗΘ [²sunk ¹the lord], not sparing, all the beautiful things of Jacob. He demolished in his rage the fortresses of the daughter of Judah. He cleaved unto the ground. He profaned her king and her ruler. 3 ΓΙΜΕΛ He broke in pieces in anger of his rage all the horn of Israel. He turned back his right hand from the face of the enemy, and he lit in Jacob [²as ³fire ¹a flame], and it devoured all the things round about. 4 ΔΑΛΕΘ He stretched tight his bow as an enemy. He stiffened his right hand as an opponent, and he killed all the desirable things of my eyes in the tent of the daughter of Zion. He poured out [²as ³fire ¹his anger]. 5 Η [²became ¹The lord] as an enemy. He sunk Israel, he sunk all his palaces. He utterly destroyed his fortresses, and multiplied to the daughter of Judah the one humbling and the one being humbled. 6 ΟΥΑΥ And he opened and spread out [²as ³a grapevine ¹his tent]. [²was corrupted ¹his holiday feast]. The lord forgot what he appointed in Zion -- the holiday feast and the Sabbath; and [³provoked ¹the threatening ²of his anger] king and priest. 7 ΖΑΙΝ The lord thrust away his altar, he brushed off his sanctuary, he broke by the hand of the enemy the wall of her palaces; [²a sound ¹they gave] in the house of the lord, as in the day of holiday. 8 ΗΘ The lord devised to ruin the wall of the daughter of Zion. He stretched out a measure, he did not return his hand from trampling; and [³mourned ¹the ²area around the wall], and the wall with one accord was weakened. 9 ΤΗΘ [²are stuck ³into ⁴the ground ¹Her gates]; he destroyed and broke her gate bars. Her king and her rulers are in the nations. There is no law, and indeed her prophets beheld not a vision by the lord. 10 ΙΩΘ They sat upon the ground; [⁴kept silent ¹the elders ²of the daughter ³of Zion]. They brought dust upon their head; they girded on sackcloths; they led down to the ground the heads of virgins in Jerusalem. 11 ΧΑΦ [²failed ³with ⁴tears ¹My eyes]; [²is disturbed ¹my heart]; [²is poured out ³onto ⁴the ⁵ground ¹my glory] over the destruction of the daughter of my people, in the failing infant and ones nursing in the squares of the city. 12 ΛΑΜΕΔ To their mothers they said, Where is the grain and wine? while they were enfeebled as wounded men in the squares of the city, in the pouring out of their souls into the bosom of their mothers. 13 ΜΗΜ What shall I testify? or what shall I liken to you, O daughter of Jerusalem? Who shall deliver you, O virgin daughter of Zion? For [³was enlarged ¹the cup ²of your destruction]; Who shall heal you? 14 ΝΟΥΝ Your prophets saw for you vanities and folly, and they uncovered not upon your iniquity, to turn your captivity; and they beheld for you [²concerns ¹vain] and purgations. 15 ΣΑΜΕΧ [⁵clap ⁷over ⁸you ⁶hands ¹All ²the ones ³passing ⁴in the way]; they whistle and shake their head over the daughter of Jerusalem, Is she the city, they shall say, the crown of glory of gladness of all the earth? 16 ΑΙΝ [³opened ⁵wide ⁶against ⁷you ⁴their mouth ¹All ²your enemies]. They whistled and gnashed their teeth. They said, We swallowed her down. Besides, this is the day which we expected; we found it, we saw it. 17 ΦΗ The lord did what he pondered. He completed his word which he gave charge from days of old. He demolished, and spared not, and he gladdened [²over ³you ¹the enemy], He raised up high the horn of the one afflicting you. 18 ΣΑΔΗ [²yelled out ¹Their heart] to the lord, saying, O walls of Zion, lead down [²as ³a rushing stream ¹tears] day and night! And give soberness to yourself; neither let [³keep quiet ¹the pupil ²of your eye]! 19 ΚΩΦ Rise up to meditate in the night! At the beginnings of your watch pour out [²as ³water ¹your heart] before the face of the lord! Lift to him your hands for the lives of your infants, of the ones fainting from hunger at the corner of all the streets! 20 ΡΗΣ Behold, O lord, and look upon what you gleaned thus! Shall [²eat ¹the women] the fruit of their belly? Shall [⁴be murdered ¹infants ²nursing ³breasts]? Shall you kill in the sanctuary of the lord the priest and prophet? 21 ΣΙΝ [⁴went to bed ⁵on ⁶the ground ⁷in the street ¹The boy ²and ³old man]; my virgins and my young men went into captivity by broadsword; by famine you killed; in the day of your anger you cut up, you spared not. 22 ΘΑΥ You called as in a day of holiday for my sojourners round about; and there was not in the day of anger of the lord one being rescued and being left behind, as I prevailed, and I filled [²my enemies ¹all].