Lam 2 | NASB2020 | STEP | How the Lord has covered the daughter of Zion With a cloud in His anger ! He has hurled The glory of Israel from heaven to earth , And has not remembered His footstool In the day of His anger .

Lamentations 2

God’s Anger over Israel

1 How the Lord has ^{▼▼Or scorned...Zion in His anger
,} ^bcovered the daughter of Zion
With a cloud in His anger!
He has ^churled
The ^dglory of Israel from heaven to earth,
And has not remembered His ^efootstool
In the day of His anger.
2 The Lord has ^{▼▼Lit engulfed
,} ^gdestroyed; He has not spared
All the settlements of Jacob.
In His wrath He has ^hoverthrown
The strongholds of the daughter of Judah,
He has ⁱhurled them down to the ground;
He has ^jprofaned the kingdom and its leaders.
3 In fierce anger He has cut off
^{▼▼Lit Every horn}All the ^lstrength of Israel;
He has ^mpulled back His right hand
From the enemy.
And He has ⁿburned in Jacob like a flaming fire
Consuming on all sides.
4 He has bent His ^obow like an enemy;
His right hand is positioned like an adversary,
And He has killed everything that was ^ppleasant to the eye.
In the tent of the daughter of Zion
He has ^qpoured out His wrath like fire.
5 The Lord has become like an ^renemy.
He has ^sengulfed Israel;
He has engulfed all its ^tpalaces,
He has destroyed its strongholds
And ^ucaused great mourning and grieving in the daughter of Judah.
6 And He has treated His ^{▼▼Or booth}tabernacle violently, like a despised garden;
He has ^wdestroyed His appointed ^{▼▼Or feast}meeting place.
The Lord has ^ycaused
The appointed feast and Sabbath in Zion to be forgotten,
And He has ^zdespised king and priest
In the indignation of His anger.
7 The Lord has ^aarejected His altar,
He has ^{▼▼I.e., scornfully rejected}repudiated His sanctuary;
He ^achas handed over
The walls of her palaces to the enemy.
They have made a ^adnoise in the house of the Lord
As on the day of an appointed feast.
8 The Lord determined to destroy
The wall of the daughter of Zion.
He has ^aestretched out a line,
He has not restrained His hand from ^{▼▼Lit engulfing}destroying,
And He has ^agcaused rampart and wall to mourn;
They have languished together.
9 Her ^ahgates have sunk into the ground,
He has destroyed and broken her bars.
Her king and her leaders are among the nations;
The ^aiLaw is gone.
Her prophets, too, find
^ajNo vision from the Lord.
10 The elders of the daughter of Zion
^akSit on the ground and ^{▼▼Another reading is wail
,} ^amare silent.
They have thrown ^andust on their heads;
They have put on ^aosackcloth.
The ^apvirgins of Jerusalem
Have bowed their heads to the ground.
11 My ^aqeyes fail because of tears,
My ^{▼▼Lit inward parts are in ferment
,} ^asspirit is greatly troubled;
My ^{▼▼Lit liver
,} ^auheart is poured out on the earth
^avBecause of the ^{▼▼Lit breaking}destruction of the daughter of my people,
When ^axlittle ones and infants languish
In the streets of the city.
12 They say to their mothers,
“ ^ayWhere is grain and wine?”
As they faint like a wounded person
In the streets of the city,
As their ^azlives are poured out
^{▼▼Lit on...breast}In their mothers’ arms.
13 How shall I admonish you?
What ^bbshall I compare to you,
Daughter of Jerusalem?
What shall I liken to you as I comfort you,
^bcVirgin daughter of Zion?
For your collapse is as vast as the sea;
Who can ^bdheal you?
14 Your ^beprophets have seen for you
Worthless and deceptive visions;
And they have not ^bfexposed your wrongdoing
So as to restore you from captivity,
But they have ^bgseen for you worthless and misleading pronouncements.
15 All who pass along the way
^bhClap their hands in ridicule at you;
They ^{bi
,} ^{▼▼Or whistle}hiss and shake their heads
At the daughter of Jerusalem:
“Is this the city of which they said,
‘ ^bkPerfect in beauty,
^blA joy to all the earth’?”
16 All ^bmyour enemies
Have opened their mouths wide against you;
They ^{▼▼Or whistle}hiss and ^bognash their teeth.
They say, “We have ^bpengulfed her!
This certainly is the ^bqday which we awaited;
We have reached it, we have seen it!”
17 The Lord has ^brdone what He determined;
He has accomplished His word
Which He commanded from days of old.
He has torn down ^bswithout sparing,
And He has helped the enemy to ^btrejoice over you;
He has ^buexalted the ^{▼▼Lit horn}might of your adversaries.
18 Their ^bwheart cried out to the Lord:
“You ^bxwall of the daughter of Zion,
Let your ^bytears stream 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, whimper in the ^canight
At the beginning of the night watches;
^cbPour out your heart like water
Before the presence of the Lord;
Raise your hands to Him
For the ^cclife of your little ones
Who ^cdlanguish because of hunger
At the head of every street.
20 “See, Lord, and look!
With ^cewhom have You dealt this way?
Should women really ^cfeat their ^{▼▼Lit fruit}children,
The little ones who were ^{▼▼Or tenderly cared for}born healthy?
Should ^cipriest and prophet really be killed
In the sanctuary of the Lord?
21 “On the ground in the streets
Lie ^cjyoung and old;
My ^ckvirgins and my young men
Have fallen by the sword.
You have put them to death on the day of Your anger,
You have slaughtered, ^clwithout sparing.
22 “You called as on the day of an appointed feast
My ^cmterrors on every side;
And there was ^cnno one who survived or escaped
On the day of the Lord’s anger.
As for those ^cowhom I brought forth healthy and whom I raised,
My enemy annihilated them.”