Judgment on Jerusalem

א Alef

How the Lord has overshadowed
Daughter Zion with His anger!
He has thrown down Israel’s glory
from heaven to earth.
He has abandoned His footstool[a](A)
in the day of His anger.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 2:1 Either the ark of the covenant or the temple

[a]How the Lord has covered Daughter Zion
    with the cloud of his anger[b]!(A)
He has hurled down the splendor of Israel
    from heaven to earth;
he has not remembered his footstool(B)
    in the day of his anger.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 2:1 This chapter is an acrostic poem, the verses of which begin with the successive letters of the Hebrew alphabet.
  2. Lamentations 2:1 Or How the Lord in his anger / has treated Daughter Zion with contempt

ד Dalet

He has bent His bow like an enemy;(A)
His right hand is positioned like an adversary.
He has killed everyone who was loved,[a]
pouring out His wrath like fire
on the tent of Daughter Zion.

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 2:4 Lit killed all the delights of the eye; Ezk 24:16

Like an enemy he has strung his bow;(A)
    his right hand is ready.
Like a foe he has slain
    all who were pleasing to the eye;(B)
he has poured out his wrath(C) like fire(D)
    on the tent(E) of Daughter Zion.

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ח Khet

The Lord determined to destroy
the wall of Daughter Zion.
He stretched out a measuring line(A)
and did not restrain Himself from destroying.
He made the ramparts and walls grieve;
together they waste away.

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The Lord determined to tear down
    the wall around Daughter Zion.(A)
He stretched out a measuring line(B)
    and did not withhold his hand from destroying.
He made ramparts(C) and walls lament;
    together they wasted away.(D)

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ת Tav

22 Daughter Zion, your punishment is complete;
He will not lengthen your exile.[a]
But He will punish your iniquity, Daughter Edom,
and will expose your sins.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 4:22 Or not deport you again

22 Your punishment will end, Daughter Zion;(A)
    he will not prolong your exile.
But he will punish your sin, Daughter Edom,
    and expose your wickedness.(B)

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