Lam 2 | NASB1995 | STEP | How the Lord has covered the daughter of Zion With a cloud in His anger ! He has cast from heaven to earth The glory of Israel , And has not remembered His footstool In the day of His anger .

Lamentations 2

God’s Anger over Israel

1 How the Lord has ^acovered the daughter of Zion
With a cloud in His anger!
He has ^bcast from heaven to earth
The ^cglory of Israel,
And has not remembered His ^dfootstool
In the day of His anger.
2 The Lord has ^eswallowed up; He has not spared
All the habitations of Jacob.
In His wrath He has ^fthrown down
The strongholds of the daughter of Judah;
He has ^gbrought them down to the ground;
He has ^hprofaned the kingdom and its princes.
3 In fierce anger He has cut off
^{▼▼ Lit Every horn}All the ^jstrength of Israel;
He has ^kdrawn back His right hand
From before the enemy.
And He has ^lburned in Jacob like a flaming fire
Consuming round about.
4 He has bent His ^mbow like an enemy;
He has set His right hand like an adversary
And slain all that were ⁿpleasant to the eye;
In the tent of the daughter of Zion
He has ^opoured out His wrath like fire.
5 The Lord has become like an ^penemy.
He has ^qswallowed up Israel;
He has swallowed up all its ^rpalaces,
He has destroyed its strongholds
And ^smultiplied in the daughter of Judah
Mourning and moaning.
6 And He has violently treated His ^{▼▼ Lit booth}tabernacle like a garden booth;
He has ^udestroyed His appointed ^{▼▼ Or feast}meeting place.
The Lord has ^wcaused to be forgotten
The appointed feast and sabbath in Zion,
And He has ^xdespised king and priest
In the indignation of His anger.
7 The Lord has ^yrejected His altar,
He has abandoned His sanctuary;
He ^zhas delivered into the hand of the enemy
The walls of her palaces.
They have made a ^aanoise in the house of the Lord
As in the day of an appointed feast.
8 The Lord ^{▼▼ Lit thought}determined to destroy
The wall of the daughter of Zion.
He has ^acstretched out a line,
He has not restrained His hand from ^{▼▼ Lit swallowing up}destroying,
And He has ^aecaused rampart and wall to lament;
They have languished together.
9 Her ^afgates have sunk into the ground,
He has destroyed and broken her bars.
Her king and her princes are among the nations;
The ^aglaw is no more.
Also, her prophets find
^ahNo vision from the Lord.
10 The elders of the daughter of Zion
^aiSit on the ground, they ^ajare silent.
They have thrown ^akdust on their heads;
They have girded themselves with ^alsackcloth.
The ^amvirgins of Jerusalem
Have bowed their heads to the ground.
11 My ^aneyes fail because of tears,
My ^{▼▼ Lit inward parts are in ferment
,} ^apspirit is greatly troubled;
My ^{▼▼ Lit liver
,} ^arheart is poured out on the earth
^asBecause of the ^{▼▼ Lit breaking}destruction of the daughter of my people,
When ^aulittle ones and infants faint
In the streets of the city.
12 They say to their mothers,
^av“Where is grain and wine?”
As they faint like a wounded man
In the streets of the city,
As their ^awlife is poured out
On their mothers’ bosom.
13 How shall I admonish you?
To what ^axshall I compare you,
O daughter of Jerusalem?
To what shall I liken you as I comfort you,
O ^ayvirgin daughter of Zion?
For your ^{▼▼ Lit breaking}ruin is as vast as the sea;
Who can ^baheal you?
14 Your ^bbprophets have seen for you
False and foolish visions;
And they have not ^bcexposed your iniquity
So as to restore you from captivity,
But they have ^bdseen for you false and misleading ^{▼▼ Lit burdens}oracles.
15 All who pass along the way
^bfClap their hands in derision at you;
They ^bghiss and shake their heads
At the daughter of Jerusalem,
“Is this the city of which they said,
‘ ^bhThe perfection of beauty,
^biA joy to all the earth’?”
16 All ^bjyour enemies
Have opened their mouths wide against you;
They hiss and ^bkgnash their teeth.
They say, “We have ^blswallowed her up!
Surely this is the ^bmday for which we waited;
We have reached it, we have seen it.”
17 The Lord has ^bndone what He purposed;
He has accomplished His word
Which He commanded from days of old.
He has thrown down ^bowithout sparing,
And He has caused the enemy to ^bprejoice over you;
He has ^bqexalted the ^{▼▼ Lit horn}might of your adversaries.
18 Their ^bsheart cried out to the Lord,
“O ^btwall of the daughter of Zion,
Let your ^butears run down like a river day and night;
Give yourself no relief,
Let ^{▼▼ Lit the daughter of your eye}your eyes have no rest.
19 “Arise, cry aloud in the ^bwnight
At the beginning of the night watches;
^bxPour out your heart like water
Before the presence of the Lord;
Lift up your hands to Him
For the ^bylife of your little ones
Who are ^bzfaint because of hunger
At the head of every street.”
20 See, O Lord, and look!
With ^cawhom have You dealt thus?
Should women ^cbeat their ^{▼▼ Lit fruit}offspring,
The little ones who were ^{▼▼ Or tenderly cared for}born healthy?
Should ^cepriest and prophet be slain
In the sanctuary of the Lord?
21 On the ground in the streets
Lie ^cfyoung and old;
My ^cgvirgins and my young men
Have fallen by the sword.
You have slain them in the day of Your anger,
You have slaughtered, ^chnot sparing.
22 You called as in the day of an appointed feast
My ^citerrors on every side;
And there was ^cjno one who escaped or survived
In the day of the Lord’s anger.
Those ^ckwhom I ^{▼▼ Lit bore healthy or, tenderly cared for}bore and reared,
My enemy annihilated them.