1. How the Lord has overshadowedDaughter Zion with His anger!He has thrown down Israel’s gloryfrom heaven to earth.He has abandoned His footstool in the day of His anger.
2. Without compassion the Lord has swallowed upall the dwellings of Jacob.In His wrath He has demolishedthe fortified cities of Daughter Judah.He brought them to the groundand defiled the kingdom and its leaders.
3. He has cut off every horn of Israelin His burning angerand withdrawn His right hand in the presence of the enemy.He has blazed against Jacob like a flaming firethat consumes everything.
4. He has bent His bow like an enemy; His right hand is positioned like an adversary.He has killed everyone who was loved, pouring out His wrath like fireon the tent of Daughter Zion.
5. The Lord is like an enemy;He has swallowed up Israel.He swallowed up all its palacesand destroyed its fortified cities.He has multiplied mourning and lamentationwithin Daughter Judah.
6. He has done violence to His temple as if it were a garden booth,destroying His place of meeting. The Lord has abolishedappointed festivals and Sabbaths in Zion.He has despised king and priestin His fierce anger.
7. The Lord has rejected His altar,repudiated His sanctuary; He has handed the walls of her palacesover to the enemy.They have raised a shout in the house of the Lordas on the day of an appointed festival.
8. The Lord determined to destroythe 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.
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 receiveno vision from the Lord.