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Lamentations 2 :: New American Standard Bible 1995 (NASB95)

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God's Anger over Israel

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 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?
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 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’?”
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 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.”
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 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?
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 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 LORDS anger.
Those whom I [fn]bore and reared,
My enemy annihilated them.
NASB95 Footnotes
Literally: Every horn
Literally: booth
Or, feast
Literally: thought
Literally: swallowing up
Literally: inward parts are in ferment
Literally: liver
Literally: breaking
Literally: breaking
Literally: burdens
Literally: horn
Literally: the daughter of your eye
Literally: fruit
Or, tenderly cared for
Literally: bore healthy or, tenderly cared for
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