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Adonay became an enemy.
    He swallowed up Israel.
    He swallowed up all of its palaces.
    He destroyed its strongholds.
    He made the people of Judah mourn and moan.
He stripped his own booth as if it were a garden
    and destroyed his own festivals.
    Yahweh wiped out the memory of festivals and days of worship in Zion.
    He expelled kings and priests because of his fierce anger.
Adonay rejected his altar and disowned his holy place.
    He handed the walls of Zion’s palaces over to its enemies.
        The enemies made noise in Yahweh’s temple
            as though it were a festival day.

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The Lord is like an enemy;(A)
    he has swallowed up Israel.
He has swallowed up all her palaces
    and destroyed her strongholds.(B)
He has multiplied mourning and lamentation(C)
    for Daughter Judah.(D)

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

The Lord has rejected his altar
    and abandoned his sanctuary.(I)
He has given the walls of her palaces(J)
    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.(K)

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