10 The adversary has stretched out his hand
Over all her precious things,
For she has seen the (A)nations enter her sanctuary,
The ones whom You commanded
That they were (B)not to enter Your congregation.

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10 The enemy laid hands
    on all her treasures;(A)
she saw pagan nations
    enter her sanctuary(B)
those you had forbidden(C)
    to enter your assembly.

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10 The adversary hath spread out his hand upon all her pleasant things: for she hath seen that the heathen entered into her sanctuary, whom thou didst command that they should not enter into thy congregation.

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And He has treated His [a]tabernacle violently, like a despised garden;
He has (A)destroyed His appointed [b]meeting place.
The Lord has (B)caused
The appointed feast and Sabbath in Zion to be forgotten,
And He has (C)despised king and priest
In the indignation of His anger.
The Lord has (D)rejected His altar,
He has [c]repudiated His sanctuary;
He (E)has handed over
The walls of her palaces to the enemy.
They have made a (F)noise in the house of the Lord
As on the day of an appointed feast.

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 2:6 Or booth
  2. Lamentations 2:6 Or feast
  3. Lamentations 2:7 I.e., scornfully rejected

He has laid waste his dwelling like a garden;
    he has destroyed(A) his place of meeting.(B)
The Lord has made Zion forget
    her appointed festivals and her Sabbaths;(C)
in his fierce anger he has spurned
    both king and priest.(D)

The Lord has rejected his altar
    and abandoned his sanctuary.(E)
He has given the walls of her palaces(F)
    into the hands of the enemy;
they have raised a shout in the house of the Lord
    as on the day of an appointed festival.(G)

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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.

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.

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