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\v 1 The Lord has completely covered the daughter of Zion with a dark cloud in his anger!
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\q He has cast down the beauty of Israel from heaven to the earth;
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\q he has ignored 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 He has thrown down the fortified cities of the daughter of Judah in his wrath;
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\q he has struck them down to the ground in dishonor and disgraced the kingdom and her princes.
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\v 3 With fierce anger he has cut off all the strength of Israel.
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\q He has drawn back 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 He has strung his bow at us like an enemy.
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\q He has stood in battle position as an adversary with his hand ready to shoot.
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\q He has slaughtered all the people most precious in sight.
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\q In the tent of the daughter of Zion 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; he has spurned 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 made a sound of victory in the house of Yahweh, as on the day of a solemn assembly.
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\v 8 Yahweh has deliberately 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 And he has made the ramparts lament and the walls become feeble.
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\v 9 Her gates have sunk into the ground; he has destroyed and broken her gate bars.
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\q Her king and her princes are among the Gentiles, where there is no law of Moses.
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\q Even her prophets find no vision from Yahweh.
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\v 10 The elders of the daughter of Zion sit on the ground and silently grieve.
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\q They have sprinkled dust on their heads; they dress in sackcloth.
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\q The virgins of Jerusalem lower their heads to the ground.
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\v 11 My tears have ended; my eyes are red; my innermost parts are in turmoil.
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\q My liver has been poured out to the ground because of the crushing of the daughter of my people,
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\q because the young children and the nursing babies are helplessly weak in the streets of the villages.
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\v 12 They say to their mothers, "Where is grain and wine?"
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\q fainting like wounded men in the streets of the city,
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\q their lives being poured out onto their mothers’ laps.
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\v 13 What can I say regarding you, daughter of Jerusalem?
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\q What will I compare to you to comfort you, virgin daughter of Zion?
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\q Your collapse is as great as the sea. Who can heal you?
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\v 14 Your prophets have seen deceitful and foolish visions for you.
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\q They have not revealed your iniquity to restore your fortunes,
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\q but have perceived deceitful oracles and temptations for you.
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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 wide and mock you.
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\q They whistle and grind their teeth; they say, "We have swallowed her!
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\q Certainly this is the day for which we waited! We have found it! We have seen it!"
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\v 17 Yahweh has done what he decided. He has fulfilled his word that he proclaimed long ago.
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\q He has torn down; he has not shown compassion,
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\q for he has allowed the enemy to rejoice over you; he has lifted up the strength of your enemies.
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\v 18 Their heart shouts to the Lord,
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\q "Walls of the daughter of Zion, let tears flow down like a river day and night.
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\q Give yourself no reprieve. Do not stop the outflow of your eyes.
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\v 19 Stand and cry out in the night; from the beginning of the 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 life of your children who lie weak with hunger at the head of every street."
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\v 20 Look, Yahweh, and regard those whom you have dealt with so severely.
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\q Should the women eat their own fruit, the children whom they have care for?
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\q Should the priest and the prophet be slaughtered in the sanctuary of the Lord?
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\v 21 Both the young and the old lie on the ground in the streets.
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\q My virgins and my vigorous men have fallen by the sword.
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\q You have slaughtered them in the day of your wrath; you have killed ruthlessly and shown no compassion.
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\v 22 You have summoned my terrors from all around as in the day of the solemn assembly;
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\q no one escaped, and there was no survivor on the day of Yahweh's wrath.
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\q Those whom I nurtured and raised, my enemy has brought to an end.
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