2. The Lord has swallowed up without mercyall the habitations of Jacob;in his wrath he has broken downthe strongholds of the daughter of Judah;he has brought down to the ground in dishonorthe kingdom and its rulers.
3. He has cut down in fierce angerall the might of Israel; he has withdrawn from them his right handin the face of the enemy; he has burned like a flaming fire in Jacob,consuming all around.
4. He has bent his bow like an enemy,with his right hand set like a foe;and he has killed all who were delightful in our eyesin the tent of the daughter of Zion;he has poured out his fury like fire.
5. The Lord has become like an enemy; he has swallowed up Israel; he has swallowed up all its palaces;he has laid in ruins its strongholds,and he has multiplied in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.
6. He has laid waste his booth like a garden,laid in ruins his meeting place; the Lord has made Zion forgetfestival and Sabbath,and in his fierce indignation has spurned king and priest.
7. The Lord has scorned his altar, disowned his sanctuary; he has delivered into the hand of the enemythe walls of her palaces; they raised a clamor in the house of the Lordas on the day of festival.
8. The Lord determined to lay in ruins the wall of the daughter of Zion; he stretched out the measuring line;he did not restrain his hand from destroying; he caused rampart and wall to lament; they languished together.
9. Her gates have sunk into the ground; he has ruined and broken her bars; her king and princes are among the nations;the law is no more,and her prophets findno vision from the Lord.