And He has treated His [a]tabernacle violently, like a despised garden;
He has (A)destroyed His appointed [b]meeting place.
The Lord has (B)caused
The appointed feast and Sabbath in Zion to be forgotten,
And He has (C)despised king and priest
In the indignation of His anger.
The Lord has (D)rejected His altar,
He has [c]repudiated His sanctuary;
He (E)has handed over
The walls of her palaces to the enemy.
They have made a (F)noise in the house of the Lord
As on the day of an appointed feast.
The Lord determined to destroy
The wall of the daughter of Zion.
He has (G)stretched out a line,
He has not restrained His hand from [d]destroying,
And He has (H)caused rampart and wall to mourn;
They have languished together.

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 2:6 Or booth
  2. Lamentations 2:6 Or feast
  3. Lamentations 2:7 I.e., scornfully rejected
  4. Lamentations 2:8 Lit engulfing

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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