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\v 1 The Lord has covered the daughter of Zion under the cloud of his anger.
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\q He has thrown the splendor of Israel down from heaven to earth.
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\q He has not remembered his footstool on the day of his anger.
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\v 2 The Lord has swallowed up and has had no compassion on all the towns of Jacob.
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\q In the days of his anger he has thrown down the fortified cities of the daughter of Judah;
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\q in dishonor he has brought down to the ground the kingdom and its rulers.
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\v 3 With fierce anger he has cut off every horn of Israel.
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\q He has withdrawn his right hand from before the enemy.
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\q He has burned up Jacob like a blazing fire that devours everything around it.
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\v 4 Like an enemy he has bent his bow toward us,
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\q with his right is ready to shoot.
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\q He has slaughtered all who had been so pleasing to him in the tent of the daughter of Zion;
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\q he has poured out his wrath like fire.
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\v 5 The Lord has become like an enemy. He has swallowed up Israel.
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\q He has swallowed up all her palaces. He has destroyed her strongholds.
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\q He has increased mourning and lamentation within the daughter of Judah.
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\v 6 He has attacked his tabernacle like a garden hut. He has destroyed the place of the solemn assembly.
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\q Yahweh has caused both solemn assembly and Sabbath to be forgotten in Zion,
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\q for he has despised both king and priest in the indignation of his anger.
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\v 7 The Lord has rejected his altar and disowned his sanctuary.
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\q He has given over the walls of her palaces into the hand of the enemy.
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\q They have raised a shout in the house of Yahweh, as on the day of an appointed feast.
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\v 8 Yahweh decided to destroy the city wall of the daughter of Zion.
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\q He has stretched out the measuring line and has not withheld his hand from destroying the wall.
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\q He has made the ramparts and wall to lament; together they wasted away.
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\v 9 Her gates have sunk into the ground; he has destroyed and broken the bars of her gate.
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\q Her king and her princes are among the nations, the law is no more
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\q and her prophets find no vision from Yahweh.
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\v 10 The elders of the daughter of Zion sit on the ground in silence.
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\q They have thrown dust on their heads and put on sackcloth.
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\q The virgins of Jerusalem have bowed their heads to the ground.
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\v 11 My eyes have failed from their tears; my stomach churns;
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\q my inner parts are poured out to the ground because of the destruction of the daughter of my people,
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\q children and infants faint in the streets of the city.
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\v 12 They say to their mothers, "Where is grain and wine?"
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\q as they faint like a wounded man in the streets of the city,
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\q their lives are poured out on the bosom of their mothers.
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\v 13 What can I say to you, daughter of Jerusalem?
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\q To what can I compare to you, that I may comfort you, virgin daughter of Zion?
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\q Your wound is as great as the sea. Who can heal you?
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\v 14 Your prophets have seen false and worthless visions for you.
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\q They have not exposed your iniquity to restore your fortunes,
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\q but for you they gave utterances that are false and misleading.
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\v 15 All those who pass along the road clap their hands at you.
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\q They hiss and shake their heads against the daughter of Jerusalem and say,
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\q "Is this the city that they called 'The Perfection of Beauty,' 'The Joy for All of Earth'?"
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\v 16 All your enemies open their mouths against you.
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\q They sneer and grind their teeth and say, "We have swallowed her up!
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\q This is the day we have waited for! We have lived to see it!"
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\v 17 Yahweh has done what he planned to do. He has fulfilled his word.
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\q He has overthrown you without pity,
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\q for he has permitted the enemy to rejoice over you; he has lifted up the horn of your enemies.
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\v 18 Their heart cried out to the Lord,
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\q walls of the daughter of Zion! Make your tears flow down like a river day and night.
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\q Give yourself no relief, your eyes no relief.
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\v 19 Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the night watches!
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\q Pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord.
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\q Lift up your hands to him for the lives of your children who faint with hunger at the corner of every street."
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\v 20 See, Yahweh, and consider those you have dealt in this way.
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\q Should women eat the fruit of their wombs, the children whom they have cared for?
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\q Should priest and prophet be slaughtered in the sanctuary of the Lord?
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\v 21 Both the young and the old lie on the dust of the streets.
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\q My young women and my young men have fallen by the sword;
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\q you have slaughtered them without taking pity on them.
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\v 22 You have summoned, as you would call the people to a feast day, my terrors on every side, on the day of the anger of Yahweh no one escaped or survived;
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\q those I cared for and raised,
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\q my enemy has destroyed.
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