Lam 2:1-9 | ESV | STEP | How the Lord in his anger has set the daughter of Zion under a cloud ! He has cast down from heaven to earth the splendor of Israel ; he has not remembered his footstool in the day of his anger .

1 How the Lord in his anger
has set the daughter of Zion ^aunder a cloud!
^bHe has cast down from heaven to earth
the splendor of Israel;
he has not remembered ^chis footstool
in the day of his anger.
2 The Lord ^dhas swallowed up ^ewithout mercy
all the habitations of Jacob;
in his wrath ^fhe has broken down
the strongholds of the daughter of Judah;
he has brought ^gdown to the ground ^hin dishonor
the kingdom ⁱand its rulers.
3 He has cut down in ^jfierce anger
all ^kthe might of Israel;
^lhe has withdrawn from them his right hand
in the face of the enemy;
^mhe has burned like a flaming fire in Jacob,
consuming all around.
4 ⁿHe has bent his bow like an enemy,
with his right hand set ^olike a foe;
and he has killed all who were delightful in our eyes
in the tent of the daughter of Zion;
he has poured out his fury like fire.
5 ^pThe Lord has become like an enemy;
^qhe has swallowed up Israel;
^rhe has swallowed up all its palaces;
he has laid in ruins its strongholds,
and he has multiplied in the daughter of Judah
^smourning and lamentation.
6 He has laid waste his booth like a garden,
laid in ruins ^this meeting place;
^uthe Lord has made Zion forget
festival and ^vSabbath,
and in his fierce indignation has spurned king and priest.
7 ^wThe Lord has scorned his altar,
^xdisowned his sanctuary;
^yhe has delivered into the hand of the enemy
the walls of her palaces;
^zthey raised a clamor in the house of the Lord
as on the day of festival.
8 ^aaThe Lord determined to lay in ruins
^abthe wall of the daughter of Zion;
^ache stretched out the measuring line;
he did not restrain his hand from destroying;
^adhe caused rampart and wall to lament;
^aethey languished together.
9 Her gates have sunk into the ground;
^afhe has ruined ^agand broken her bars;
^ahher king and princes are among the nations;
the law is no more,
and ^aiher prophets find
no vision from the Lord.