Lamentations 2

¹How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger!

²The Lord hath swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and hath not pitied:

³He hath cut off in fierce anger all the horn of Israel;

⁴He hath bent his bow like an enemy, he hath stood with his right hand as an adversary,

⁵The Lord is become as an enemy, he hath swallowed up Israel;

⁶And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden; he hath destroyed his place of assembly:

⁷The Lord hath cast off his altar, he hath abhorred his sanctuary;

⁸Jehovah hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion;

⁹Her gates are sunk into the ground; he hath destroyed and broken her bars:

¹⁰The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, they keep silence;

¹¹Mine eyes do fail with tears, my heart is troubled;

¹²They say to their mothers, Where is grain and wine?

¹³What shall I testify unto thee? what shall I liken to thee, O daughter of Jerusalem?

¹⁴Thy prophets have seen for thee false and foolish visions;

¹⁵All that pass by clap their hands at thee;

¹⁶All thine enemies have opened their mouth wide against thee;

¹⁷Jehovah hath done that which he purposed; he hath fulfilled his word that he commanded in the days of old;

¹⁸Their heart cried unto the Lord:

¹⁹Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches;

²⁰See, O Jehovah, and behold to whom thou hast done thus!

²¹The youth and the old man lie on the ground in the streets;

²²Thou hast called, as in the day of a solemn assembly, my terrors on every side;