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NOVEMBER 3
2 The Lord has swallowed up and has They languished together.
not pitied 9
All the dwelling places of Jacob. Her gates have sunk into the ground;
He has destroyed and broken her bars.
He has thrown down in His wrath Her king and her princes are among
The strongholds of the daughter the nations;
of Judah;
He has brought them down to the The Law is no more,
And her prophets find no vision from
ground;
He has profaned the kingdom the LORD.
and its princes. 10 The elders of the daughter of Zion
Sit on the ground and keep silence;
3 He has cut off in fierce anger
Every horn of Israel; They throw dust on their heads
He has drawn back His right hand And gird themselves with sackcloth.
The virgins of Jerusalem
From before the enemy.
He has blazed against Jacob like a Bow their heads to the ground.
flaming fire 11 My eyes fail with tears,
Devouring all around. My heart is troubled;
My bile is poured on the ground
4 Standing like an enemy, He has bent
His bow; Because of the destruction of the
daughter of my people,
With His right hand, like an adversary, Because the children and the infants
He has slain all who were pleasing to Faint in the streets of the city.
His eye;
On the tent of the daughter of Zion, 12 They say to their mothers,
He has poured out His fury like fire. “Where is grain and wine?”
As they swoon like the wounded
5 The Lord was like an enemy.
He has swallowed up Israel, In the streets of the city,
As their life is poured out
He has swallowed up all her palaces;
He has destroyed her strongholds, In their mothers’ bosom.
And has increased mourning and 13 How shall I console you?
lamentation To what shall I liken you,
In the daughter of Judah. O daughter of Jerusalem?
What shall I compare with you,
6 He has done violence to His tabernacle,
As if it were a garden; that I may comfort you,
He has destroyed His place of O virgin daughter of Zion?
assembly; For your ruin is spread wide as the sea;
The LORD has caused Who can heal you?
The appointed feasts and Sabbaths to 14 Your prophets have seen for you
be forgotten in Zion. False and deceptive visions;
In His burning indignation He has They have not uncovered your iniquity,
spurned the king and the priest. To bring back your captives,
But have envisioned for you false
7 The Lord has spurned His altar, prophecies and delusions.
He has abandoned His sanctuary;
He has given up the walls of her 15 All who pass by clap their hands at you;
palaces They hiss and shake their heads
Into the hand of the enemy. At the daughter of Jerusalem:
They have made a noise in the house “Is this the city that is called
of the LORD ‘The perfection of beauty,
As on the day of a set feast. The joy of the whole earth’?”
8 The LORD has purposed to destroy 16 All your enemies have opened their
The wall of the daughter of Zion. mouth against you;
He has stretched out a line; They hiss and gnash their teeth.
He has not withdrawn His hand from They say, “We have swallowed her up!
destroying; Surely this is the day we have waited
Therefore He has caused the rampart for;
and wall to lament; We have found it, we have seen it!”

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