Verse-Reference
Reference-Verse
Abbreviate Books
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 Lam 2:1 |
How the Lord has covered the daughter of Zion With a cloud in His anger! He has cast from heaven to earth The glory of Israel, And has not remembered His footstool In the day of His anger. |
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Lam 2:2 |
The Lord has swallowed up; He has not spared All the habitations of Jacob. In His wrath He has thrown down The strongholds of the daughter of Judah; He has brought them down to the ground; He has profaned the kingdom and its princes. |
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Lam 2:3 |
In fierce anger He has cut off [fn]All the strength of Israel; He has drawn back His right hand From before the enemy. And He has burned in Jacob like a flaming fire Consuming round about. |
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Lam 2:4 |
He has bent His bow like an enemy; He has set His right hand like an adversary And slain all that were pleasant to the eye; In the tent of the daughter of Zion He has poured out His wrath like fire. |
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Lam 2:5 |
The Lord has become like an enemy. He has swallowed up Israel; He has swallowed up all its palaces, He has destroyed its strongholds And multiplied in the daughter of Judah Mourning and moaning. |
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Lam 2:6 |
And He has violently treated His [fn]tabernacle like a garden booth; He has destroyed His appointed [fn]meeting place. The LORD has caused to be forgotten The appointed feast and sabbath in Zion, And He has despised king and priest In the indignation of His anger. |
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Lam 2:7 |
The Lord has rejected His altar, He has abandoned His sanctuary; He has delivered into the hand of the enemy The walls of her palaces. They have made a noise in the house of the LORD As in the day of an appointed feast. |
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Lam 2:8 |
The LORD [fn]determined to destroy The wall of the daughter of Zion. He has stretched out a line, He has not restrained His hand from [fn]destroying, And He has caused rampart and wall to lament; They have languished together. |
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Lam 2:9 |
Her gates have sunk into the ground, He has destroyed and broken her bars. Her king and her princes are among the nations; The law is no more. Also, her prophets find No vision from the LORD. |
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Lam 2:10 |
The elders of the daughter of Zion Sit on the ground, they are silent. They have thrown dust on their heads; They have girded themselves with sackcloth. The virgins of Jerusalem Have bowed their heads to the ground. |
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Lam 2:11 |
My eyes fail because of tears, My [fn]spirit is greatly troubled; My [fn]heart is poured out on the earth Because of the [fn]destruction of the daughter of my people, When little ones and infants faint In the streets of the city. |
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Lam 2:12 |
They say to their mothers, "Where is grain and wine?" As they faint like a wounded man In the streets of the city, As their life is poured out On their mothers' bosom. |
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Lam 2:13 |
How shall I admonish you? To what shall I compare you, O daughter of Jerusalem? To what shall I liken you as I comfort you, O virgin daughter of Zion? For your [fn]ruin is as vast as the sea; Who can heal you? |
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Lam 2:14 |
Your prophets have seen for you False and foolish visions; And they have not exposed your iniquity So as to restore you from captivity, But they have seen for you false and misleading [fn]oracles. |
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Lam 2:15 |
All who pass along the way Clap their hands in derision at you; They hiss and shake their heads At the daughter of Jerusalem, "Is this the city of which they said, 'The perfection of beauty, A joy to all the earth'?" |
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Lam 2:16 |
All your enemies Have opened their mouths wide against you; They hiss and gnash their teeth. They say, "We have swallowed her up! Surely this is the day for which we waited; We have reached it, we have seen it." |
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Lam 2:17 |
The LORD has done what He purposed; He has accomplished His word Which He commanded from days of old. He has thrown down without sparing, And He has caused the enemy to rejoice over you; He has exalted the [fn]might of your adversaries. |
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Lam 2:18 |
Their heart cried out to the Lord, "O wall of the daughter of Zion, Let your tears run down like a river day and night; Give yourself no relief, Let [fn]your eyes have no rest. |
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Lam 2:19 |
"Arise, cry aloud in the night At the beginning of the night watches; Pour out your heart like water Before the presence of the Lord; Lift up your hands to Him For the life of your little ones Who are faint because of hunger At the head of every street." |
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Lam 2:20 |
See, O LORD, and look! With whom have You dealt thus? Should women eat their [fn]offspring, The little ones who were [fn]born healthy? Should priest and prophet be slain In the sanctuary of the Lord? |
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Lam 2:21 |
On the ground in the streets Lie young and old; My virgins and my young men Have fallen by the sword. You have slain them in the day of Your anger, You have slaughtered, not sparing. |
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Lam 2:22 |
You called as in the day of an appointed feast My terrors on every side; And there was no one who escaped or survived In the day of the LORD'S anger. Those whom I [fn]bore and reared, My enemy annihilated them. |
NASB Footnotes:
- (2:3) Literally: Every horn
- (2:6) Literally: booth
- (2:6) Or, feast
- (2:8) Literally: thought
- (2:8) Literally: swallowing up
- (2:11) Literally: inward parts are in ferment
- (2:11) Literally: liver
- (2:11) Literally: breaking
- (2:13) Literally: breaking
- (2:14) Literally: burdens
- (2:17) Literally: horn
- (2:18) Literally: the daughter of your eye
- (2:20) Literally: fruit
- (2:20) Or, tenderly cared for
- (2:22) Literally: bore healthy or, tenderly cared for
