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1. 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 in the day of His anger.
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1. How H349 hath the Lord H136 covered H5743 H853 the daughter H1323 of Zion H6726 with a cloud in his anger H639 , and cast down H7993 from heaven H4480 H8064 unto the earth H776 the beauty H8597 of Israel H3478 , and remembered H2142 not H3808 his footstool H1916 H7272 in the day H3117 of his anger H639 !
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2. Without compassion the Lord has swallowed up all the dwellings of Jacob. In His wrath He has demolished the fortified cities of Daughter Judah. He brought them to the ground and defiled the kingdom and its leaders.
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2. The Lord H136 hath swallowed up H1104 H853 all H3605 the habitations H4999 of Jacob H3290 , and hath not H3808 pitied H2550 : he hath thrown down H2040 in his wrath H5678 the strongholds H4013 of the daughter H1323 of Judah H3063 ; he hath brought them down H5060 to the ground H776 : he hath polluted H2490 the kingdom H4467 and the princes H8269 thereof.
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3. He has cut off every horn of Israel in His burning anger and withdrawn His right hand in the presence of the enemy. He has blazed against Jacob like a flaming fire that consumes everything in its path.
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3. He hath cut off H1438 in his fierce H2750 anger H639 all H3605 the horn H7161 of Israel H3478 : he hath drawn H7725 back H268 his right hand H3225 from before H4480 H6440 the enemy H341 , and he burned H1197 against Jacob H3290 like a flaming H3852 fire H784 , which devoureth H398 round about H5439 .
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4. Like an enemy He has bent His bow; His right hand is positioned like an adversary. He has killed everyone who was loved, pouring out His wrath like fire on the tent of Daughter Zion.
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4. He hath bent H1869 his bow H7198 like an enemy H341 : he stood H5324 with his right hand H3225 as an adversary H6862 , and slew H2026 all H3605 that were pleasant H4261 to the eye H5869 in the tabernacle H168 of the daughter H1323 of Zion H6726 : he poured out H8210 his fury H2534 like fire H784 .
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5. The Lord is like an enemy; He has swallowed up Israel. He swallowed up all its palaces and destroyed its fortified cities. He has multiplied mourning and lamentation within Daughter Judah.
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5. The Lord H136 was H1961 as an enemy H341 : he hath swallowed up H1104 Israel H3478 , he hath swallowed up H1104 all H3605 her palaces H759 : he hath destroyed H7843 his strongholds H4013 , and hath increased H7235 in the daughter H1323 of Judah H3063 mourning H8386 and lamentation H592 .
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6. He has done violence to His temple as if it were a garden booth, destroying His place of meeting. The LORD has abolished appointed festivals and Sabbaths in Zion. He has despised king and priest in His fierce anger.
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6. And he hath violently taken away H2554 his tabernacle H7900 , as if it were of a garden H1588 : he hath destroyed H7843 his places of the assembly H4150 : the LORD H3068 hath caused the solemn feasts H4150 and sabbaths H7676 to be forgotten H7911 in Zion H6726 , and hath despised H5006 in the indignation H2195 of his anger H639 the king H4428 and the priest H3548 .
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7. The Lord has rejected His altar, repudiated His sanctuary; He has handed the walls of her palaces over to the enemy. They have raised a shout in the house of the LORD as on the day of an appointed festival.
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7. The Lord H136 hath cast off H2186 his altar H4196 , he hath abhorred H5010 his sanctuary H4720 , he hath given up H5462 into the hand H3027 of the enemy H341 the walls H2346 of her palaces H759 ; they have made H5414 a noise H6963 in the house H1004 of the LORD H3068 , as in the day H3117 of a solemn feast H4150 .
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8. The LORD determined to destroy the wall of Daughter Zion. He stretched out a measuring line and did not restrain Himself from destroying. He made the ramparts and walls grieve; together they waste away.
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8. The LORD H3068 hath purposed H2803 to destroy H7843 the wall H2346 of the daughter H1323 of Zion H6726 : he hath stretched out H5186 a line H6957 , he hath not H3808 withdrawn H7725 his hand H3027 from destroying H4480 H1104 : therefore he made the rampart H2426 and the wall H2346 to lament H56 ; they languished H535 together H3162 .
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9. Zion's gates have fallen to the ground; He has destroyed and shattered the bars on her gates. Her king and her leaders live among the nations, instruction is no more, and even her prophets receive no vision from the LORD.
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9. Her gates H8179 are sunk H2883 into the ground H776 ; he hath destroyed H6 and broken H7665 her bars H1280 : her king H4428 and her princes H8269 are among the Gentiles H1471 : the law H8451 is no H369 more ; her prophets H5030 also H1571 find H4672 no H3808 vision H2377 from the LORD H4480 H3068 .
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10. The elders of Daughter Zion sit on the ground in silence. They have thrown dust on their heads and put on sackcloth. The young women of Jerusalem have bowed their heads to the ground.
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10. The elders H2205 of the daughter H1323 of Zion H6726 sit H3427 upon the ground H776 , and keep silence H1826 : they have cast up H5927 dust H6083 upon H5921 their heads H7218 ; they have girded H2296 themselves with sackcloth H8242 : the virgins H1330 of Jerusalem H3389 hang down H3381 their heads H7218 to the ground H776 .
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11. My eyes are worn out from weeping; I am churning within. My heart is poured out in grief because of the destruction of my dear people, because children and infants faint in the streets of the city.
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11. Mine eyes H5869 do fail H3615 with tears H1832 , my bowels H4578 are troubled H2560 , my liver H3516 is poured H8210 upon the earth H776 , for H5921 the destruction H7667 of the daughter H1323 of my people H5971 ; because the children H5768 and the sucklings H3243 swoon H5848 in the streets H7339 of the city H7151 .
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12. They cry out to their mothers: Where is the grain and wine? as they faint like the wounded in the streets of the city, as their lives fade away in the arms of their mothers.
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12. They say H559 to their mothers H517 , Where H346 is corn H1715 and wine H3196 ? when they swooned H5848 as the wounded H2491 in the streets H7339 of the city H5892 , when their soul H5315 was poured out H8210 into H413 their mothers H517 ' bosom H2436 .
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13. What can I say on your behalf? To what can I compare you, Daughter Jerusalem? What can I liken you to, so that I may console you, Virgin Daughter Zion? For your ruin is as vast as the sea. Who can heal you?
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13. What thing H4100 shall I take to witness H5749 for thee? what thing H4100 shall I liken H1819 to thee , O daughter H1323 of Jerusalem H3389 ? what H4100 shall I equal H7737 to thee , that I may comfort H5162 thee , O virgin H1330 daughter H1323 of Zion H6726 ? for H3588 thy breach H7667 is great H1419 like the sea H3220 : who H4310 can heal H7495 thee?
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14. Your prophets saw visions for you that were empty and deceptive; they did not reveal your guilt and so restore your fortunes. They saw oracles for you that were empty and misleading.
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14. Thy prophets H5030 have seen H2372 vain H7723 and foolish things H8602 for thee : and they have not H3808 discovered H1540 H5921 thine iniquity H5771 , to turn away H7725 thy captivity H7622 ; but have seen H2372 for thee false H7723 burdens H4864 and causes of banishment H4065 .
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15. All who pass by scornfully clap their hands at you. They hiss and shake their heads at Daughter Jerusalem: Is this the city that was called the perfection of beauty, the joy of the whole earth?
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15. All H3605 that pass by H5674 H1870 clap H5606 their hands H3709 at H5921 thee ; they hiss H8319 and wag H5128 their head H7218 at H5921 the daughter H1323 of Jerusalem H3389 , saying, Is this H2063 the city H5892 that men call H7945 H559 The perfection H3632 of beauty H3308 , The joy H4885 of the whole H3605 earth H776 ?
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16. All your enemies open their mouths against you. They hiss and gnash their teeth, saying, "We have swallowed her up. This is the day we have waited for! We have lived to see it."
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16. All H3605 thine enemies H341 have opened H6475 their mouth H6310 against H5921 thee : they hiss H8319 and gnash H2786 the teeth H8127 : they say H559 , We have swallowed her up H1104 : certainly H389 this H2088 is the day H3117 that we looked for H7945 H6960 ; we have found H4672 , we have seen H7200 it .
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17. The LORD has done what He planned; He has accomplished His decree, which He ordained in days of old. He has demolished without compassion, letting the enemy gloat over you and exalting the horn of your adversaries.
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17. The LORD H3068 hath done H6213 that which H834 he had devised H2161 ; he hath fulfilled H1214 his word H565 that H834 he had commanded H6680 in the days H4480 H3117 of old H6924 : he hath thrown down H2040 , and hath not H3808 pitied H2550 : and he hath caused thine enemy H341 to rejoice H8055 over H5921 thee , he hath set up H7311 the horn H7161 of thine adversaries H6862 .
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18. The hearts of the people cry out to the Lord. Wall of Daughter Zion, let your tears run down like a river day and night. Give yourself no relief and your eyes no rest.
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18. Their heart H3820 cried H6817 unto H413 the Lord H136 , O wall H2346 of the daughter H1323 of Zion H6726 , let tears H1832 run down H3381 like a river H5158 day H3119 and night H3915 : give H5414 thyself no H408 rest H6314 ; let not H408 the apple H1323 of thine eye H5869 cease H1826 .
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19. Arise, cry out in the night, from the first watch of the night. Pour out your heart like water before the Lord's presence. Lift up your hands to Him for the lives of your children who are fainting from hunger on the corner of every street.
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19. Arise H6965 , cry out H7442 in the night H3915 : in the beginning H7218 of the watches H821 pour out H8210 thine heart H3820 like water H4325 before H5227 the face H6440 of the Lord H136 : lift up H5375 thy hands H3709 toward H413 him for H5921 the life H5315 of thy young children H5768 , that faint H5848 for hunger H7458 in the top H7218 of every H3605 street H2351 .
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20. LORD, look and consider who You have done this to. Should women eat their own children, the infants they have nurtured? Should priests and prophets be killed in the Lord's sanctuary?
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20. Behold H7200 , O LORD H3068 , and consider H5027 to whom H4310 thou hast done H5953 this H3541 . Shall the women H802 eat H398 their fruit H6529 , and children H5768 of a span long H2949 ? shall the priest H3548 and the prophet H5030 be slain H2026 in the sanctuary H4720 of the Lord H136 ?
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21. Both young and old are lying on the ground in the streets. My young men and women have fallen by the sword. You have killed them in the day of Your anger, slaughtering without compassion.
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21. The young H5288 and the old H2205 lie H7901 on the ground H776 in the streets H2351 : my virgins H1330 and my young men H970 are fallen H5307 by the sword H2719 ; thou hast slain H2026 them in the day H3117 of thine anger H639 ; thou hast killed H2873 , and not H3808 pitied H2550 .
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22. You summoned my attackers on every side, as if for an appointed festival day; on the day of the LORD's anger no one escaped or survived. My enemy has destroyed those I nurtured and reared.
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22. Thou hast called H7121 as in a solemn H4150 day H3117 my terrors H4032 round about H4480 H5439 , so that in the day H3117 of the LORD H3068 's anger H639 none H3808 escaped H1961 H6412 nor remained H8300 : those that H834 I have swaddled H2946 and brought up H7235 hath mine enemy H341 consumed H3615 .
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