2HOW THE Lord has covered the Daughter of Zion with a cloud in His anger! He has cast down from heaven to the earth the beauty {and} splendor of Israel and has not [earnestly] remembered His footstool in the day of His anger!H136H5743H1323H6726H5743H639H7993H8064H776H8597H3478H2142H1916H7272H3117H6392The Lord has swallowed up all the country places {and} habitations of Jacob and has spared not {nor} pitied; He has demolished in His wrath the strongholds of the Daughter of Judah. He has cast down to the ground the kingdom and its rulers, polluting them {and} depriving them of their sanctity.H136H1104H4999H3290H2550H2040H5678H4013H1323H3063H5060H776H2490H4467H82693He has broken off in His fierce anger every horn (means of defense) of Israel. He has drawn back His right hand from before the enemy. And He has burned amidst Jacob like a flaming fire consuming all around.H1438H2750H639H7161H3478H7725H268H3225H6440H341H1197H3290H3852H784H398H54394He has bent His bow like an enemy; He has stood with His right hand set like a foe and has slain all the delights {and} pride of the eye; on {and} in the tent of the Daughter of Zion He has poured out His wrath like fire.H1869H7198H341H5324H3225H6862H2026H4261H5869H168H1323H6726H8210H2534H7845The Lord has become like an enemy; He has destroyed Israel. He has destroyed all its palaces, has laid in ruins its strongholds, and has multiplied in the Daughter of Judah groaning and moaning and lamentation.H136H341H1104H3478H1104H759H7843H4013H7235H1323H3063H8386H5926And He has violently broken down His temple like a booth {or} hedge of a garden; He has destroyed the place of His appointed assembly. The Lord has caused the solemn appointed feasts and Sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion and has spurned {and} rejected in the indignation of His anger the king and the priest.H2554H7900H1588H7843H4150H3068H4150H7676H7911H6726H5006H2195H639H4428H35487The Lord has scorned, rejected, {and} cast off His altar; He has abhorred {and} disowned His sanctuary. He has given into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces [and high buildings]; they have raised a clamor in the house of the Lord as on a day of a solemn appointed feast.H136H2186H4196H5010H4720H5462H3027H341H2346H759H5414H6963H1004H3068H3117H41508The Lord purposed to lay in ruins the [city] wall of the Daughter of Zion. He marked it off by measuring line; He restrained not His hand from destroying. He made rampart and wall lament; they languished together.H3068H2803H7843H2346H1323H6726H5186H6957H7725H3027H1104H2426H2346H56H535H31629Her gates have sunk into the ground; He has destroyed and broken her bars. Her king and her princes are [exiled] among the nations; the law is no more; her prophets also obtain no vision from the Lord.H8179H2883H776H6H7665H1280H4428H8269H1471H8451H5030H4672H2377H306810The elders of the Daughter of Zion sit on the ground keeping silent; they have cast dust on their heads, they have girded themselves with sackcloth. The maidens of Jerusalem have bowed their heads to the ground [says Jeremiah].H2205H1323H6726H3427H776H1826H5927H6083H7218H2296H8242H1330H3389H3381H7218H77611My eyes fail from weeping, my emotions are deeply disturbed, my heart is poured out upon the ground [in grief] because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, because infants and nurslings faint in the streets of the city.H5869H3615H1832H4578H2560H3516H8210H776H7667H1323H5971H5768H3243H5848H7339H715112They keep crying to their mothers, Where is corn and wine [food and drink]? as they faint like wounded men in the streets of the city, as their lives ebb away on their mothers' bosom.H559H517H1715H3196H5848H2491H7339H5892H5315H8210H517H243613What [example of suffering in the past] is sufficient for me to remind you for your [comfort]? To what shall I liken you, O Daughter of Jerusalem? With what shall I compare you, that I may comfort you, O Virgin Daughter of Zion? For your ruin is as measureless as the sea! Who can heal you?H5749H5749H4100H1819H1323H3389H7737H5162H1330H1323H6726H7667H1419H3220H749514Your prophets have predicted for you falsehood and delusion {and} foolish things; and they have not exposed your iniquity {and} guilt to avert your captivity [by causing you to repent]. But they have divined {and} declared to you false {and} deceptive prophecies, worthless {and} misleading.H5030H2372H7723H8602H1540H5771H7725H7622H7622H2372H7723H4864H406515All who pass by clap their hands at you; they hiss and wag their heads at the Daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city which was called the perfection of beauty, the joy of all the earth?H5674H5606H3709H1870H8319H5128H7218H1323H3389H5892H559H3632H3308H4885H77616All your enemies have opened wide their mouths against you; they scornfully hiss and gnash their teeth. They cry, We have swallowed her up! Certainly this is the day we have looked for; we have it, we see it!H341H6475H6310H8319H2786H8127H559H1104H389H3117H6960H4672H720017The Lord has done what He planned; He has carried out {and} finished His word which He threatened {and} decreed in the days of old. He has demolished without pity; He has made the enemy rejoice over you and has exalted the might of your foes.H3068H6213H2161H1214H565H6680H3117H6924H2040H2550H341H8055H7311H7161H686218The hearts [of the inhabitants of Jerusalem] cried to the Lord. [Then to the congregation, I, Jeremiah, cried, addressing the wall as its symbol] O wall of the Daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night; give yourself no rest, let not your eyes stop [shedding tears].H3820H6817H136H2346H1323H6726H1832H3381H5158H3119H3915H5414H6314H1323H5869H182619Arise [from your bed], cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches; pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord. Lift up your hands toward Him for the lives of your young children, who faint from hunger at the head of every street.H6965H7442H3915H7218H821H8210H3820H4325H5227H6440H136H5375H3709H5315H5768H5848H7458H7218H235120Behold, O Lord, and consider [carefully] to whom You have done this. Should {and} shall women eat the fruit of their own bodies, the children whom they have tended {and} swaddled with their hands? Should {and} shall priest and prophet be slain in the place set apart [for the worship] of the Lord?H7200H3068H5027H5953H3541H802H398H6529H5768H2949H3548H5030H2026H4720H13621The young and the old lie on the ground in the streets; my maidens and my young men have fallen by the sword. You have slain them in the day of Your anger, slaughtering them without pity.H5288H2205H7901H776H2351H1330H970H5307H2719H2026H3117H639H2873H255022You [Lord] called together, as on an appointed feast day of solemn assembly, my terrors (dangers) from every side. And there was not one in the day of God's wrath who escaped or survived; those I have nursed and brought up, my enemy has destroyed.H7121H4150H3117H4032H5439H3117H3068H639H6412H8300H2946H7235H341H3615
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