He has laid waste his booth like a garden,
    laid in ruins (A)his meeting place;
(B)the Lord has made Zion forget
    festival and (C)Sabbath,
and in his fierce indignation has spurned king and priest.

(D)The Lord has scorned his altar,
    (E)disowned his sanctuary;
(F)he has delivered into the hand of the enemy
    the walls of her palaces;
(G)they raised a clamor in the house of the Lord
    as on the day of festival.

(H)The Lord determined to lay in ruins
    (I)the wall of the daughter of Zion;
(J)he stretched out the measuring line;
    he did not restrain his hand from destroying;
(K)he caused rampart and wall to lament;
    (L)they languished together.

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He has laid waste his dwelling like a garden;
    he has destroyed(A) his place of meeting.(B)
The Lord has made Zion forget
    her appointed festivals and her Sabbaths;(C)
in his fierce anger he has spurned
    both king and priest.(D)

The Lord has rejected his altar
    and abandoned his sanctuary.(E)
He has given the walls of her palaces(F)
    into the hands of the enemy;
they have raised a shout in the house of the Lord
    as on the day of an appointed festival.(G)

The Lord determined to tear down
    the wall around Daughter Zion.(H)
He stretched out a measuring line(I)
    and did not withhold his hand from destroying.
He made ramparts(J) and walls lament;
    together they wasted away.(K)

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