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Chapter 2
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1
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How hath the LORD covered the daughter of Zion with a
cloud in his anger, and cast down from heaven unto the
earth the beauty of Israel, and remembered not his footstool
in the day of his anger! |
2
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The LORD hath swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob,
and hath not pitied: he hath thrown down in his wrath the
strong holds of the daughter of Judah; he hath brought
them down to the ground: he hath polluted the kingdom and
the princes thereof. |
3
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He hath cut off in his fierce anger all the horn of Israel:
he hath drawn back his right hand from before the enemy,
and he burned against Jacob like a flaming fire, which
devoureth round about. |
4
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He hath bent his bow like an enemy: he stood with his
right hand as an adversary, and slew all that were pleasant
to the eye in the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion: he
poured out his fury like fire. |
5
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The LORD was as an enemy: he hath swallowed up Israel,
he hath swallowed up all her palaces: he hath destroyed
his strong holds, and hath increased in the daughter of
Judah mourning and lamentation. |
6
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And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as if
it were of a garden: he hath destroyed his places of the
assembly: the LORD hath caused the solemn feasts and sabbaths
to be forgotten in Zion, and hath despised in the indignation
of his anger the king and the priest. |
7
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The 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 feast. |
8
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The LORD hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter
of Zion: he hath stretched out a line, he hath not withdrawn
his hand from destroying: therefore he made the rampart
and the wall to lament; they languished together. |
9
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Her gates are sunk into the ground; he hath destroyed
and broken her bars: her king and her princes are among
the Gentiles: the law is no more; her prophets also find
no vision from the LORD. |
10
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The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground,
and keep silence: 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. |
11
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Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled,
my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction
of the daughter of my people; because the children and
the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city. |
12
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They say to their mothers, Where is corn and wine? when
they swooned as the wounded in the streets of the city,
when their soul was poured out into their mothers' bosom. |
13
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What thing shall I take to witness for thee? what thing
shall I liken to thee, O daughter of Jerusalem? what shall
I equal to thee, that I may comfort thee, O virgin daughter
of Zion? for thy breach is great like the sea: who can
heal thee? |
14
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Thy prophets have seen vain and foolish things for thee:
and they have not discovered thine iniquity, to turn away
thy captivity; but have seen for thee false burdens and
causes of banishment. |
15
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All that pass by clap their hands at thee; they hiss
and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying,
Is this the city that men call The perfection of beauty,
The joy of the whole earth? |
16
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All thine enemies have opened their mouth against thee:
they hiss and gnash the teeth: they say, We have swallowed
her up: certainly this is the day that we looked for; we
have found, we have seen it. |
17
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The LORD hath done that which he had devised; he hath
fulfilled his word that he had commanded in the days of
old: he hath thrown down, and hath not pitied: and he hath
caused thine enemy to rejoice over thee, he hath set up
the horn of thine adversaries. |
18
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Their heart cried unto the LORD, O wall of the daughter
of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night:
give thyself no rest; let not the apple of thine eye cease. |
19
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Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the
watches pour out thine heart like water before the face
of the LORD: lift up thy hands toward him for the life
of thy young children, that faint for hunger in the top
of every street. |
20
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Behold, O LORD, and consider to whom thou hast done this.
Shall the women eat their fruit, and children of a span
long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the
sanctuary of the Lord? |
21
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The young and the old lie on the ground in the streets:
my virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword; thou
hast slain them in the day of thine anger; thou hast killed,
and not pitied. |
22
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Thou hast called as in a solemn day my terrors round
about, so that in the day of the LORD's anger none escaped
nor remained: those that I have swaddled and brought up
hath mine enemy consumed. |
