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LAMENTATIONS
- ת22Let all their wickedness come before Thee;
- And do unto them,
- As Thou hast done unto me
- For all my transgressions;
- For my sighs are many,
- And my heart is faint.'
- א2How hath the Lord covered with a cloud
- The daughter of Zion in His anger!
- He hath cast down from heaven unto the earth
- The beauty of Israel,
- And hath not remembered His footstool
- In the day of His anger.
- ב2The Lord hath swallowed up unsparingly
- All the habitations of Jacob;
- He hath thrown down in His wrath
- The strongholds of the daughter of Judah;
- He hath brought them down to the ground;
- He hath profaned the kingdom and the princes thereof.
- ג3He hath cut off in fierce anger
- All the horn of Israel;
- He hath drawn back His right hand
- From before the enemy;
- And He hath burned in Jacob like a flaming fire,
- Which devoureth round about.
- ד4He hath bent His bow like an enemy,
- Standing with His right hand as an adversary,
- And hath slain all that were pleasant to the eye;
- In the tent of the daughter of Zion
- He hath poured out His fury like fire.
- ה5The Lord is become as an enemy,
- He hath swallowed up Israel;
- He hath swallowed up all her palaces,
- He hath destroyed his strongholds;
- And He hath multiplied in the daughter of Judah
- Mourning and moaning.
- ו6And He hath stripped His tabernacle, as if it were a garden,
- He hath destroyed His place of assembly;
- The Lord hath caused to be forgotten in Zion
- Appointed season and sabbath,
- And hath rejected in the indignation of His anger
- The king and the priest.
- ז7The Lord hath cast off His altar,
- He hath abhorred His sanctuary,
- He hath given up into the hand of the enemy
- The walls of her palaces;
- They have made a noise in the house of the Lord,
- As in the day of a solemn assembly.
- ח8The Lord hath purposed to destroy
- The wall of the daughter of Zion;
- He hath stretched out the line,
- He hath not withdrawn
- His hand from destroying;
- But He hath made the rampart and wall to mourn,
- They languish together.
- ט9Her gates are sunk into the ground;
- He hath destroyed and broken her bars;
- Her king and her princes are among the nations,
- Instruction is no more;
- Yea, her prophets find
- No vision from the Lord.
- י10They sit upon the ground, and keep silence,
- The elders of the daughter of Zion;
- They have cast up dust upon their heads,
- They have girded themselves with sackcloth;
- The virgins of Jerusalem hang down
- Their heads to the ground.
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