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align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">NASB 1995</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nas/esv/lamentations/2.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><font color="#000000"><b><i>God’s Anger over Israel</i></b></font><font size="1"><br><br></font><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/2-1.htm" target="_top"><b>1</b></a></span>How the Lord has covered the daughter of Zion<br> With a cloud in His anger!<br> He has cast from heaven to earth<br> The glory of Israel,<br> And has not remembered His footstool<br> In the day of His anger.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/2-2.htm" target="_top"><b>2</b></a></span>The Lord has swallowed up; He has not spared<br> All the habitations of Jacob.<br> In His wrath He has thrown down<br> The strongholds of the daughter of Judah;<br> He has brought <i>them</i> down to the ground;<br> He has profaned the kingdom and its princes.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/2-3.htm" target="_top"><b>3</b></a></span>In fierce anger He has cut off<br> All the strength of Israel;<br> He has drawn back His right hand<br> From before the enemy.<br> And He has burned in Jacob like a flaming fire<br> Consuming round about.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/2-4.htm" target="_top"><b>4</b></a></span>He has bent His bow like an enemy;<br> He has set His right hand like an adversary<br> And slain all that were pleasant to the eye;<br> In the tent of the daughter of Zion<br> He has poured out His wrath like fire.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/2-5.htm" target="_top"><b>5</b></a></span>The Lord has become like an enemy.<br> He has swallowed up Israel;<br> He has swallowed up all its palaces,<br> He has destroyed its strongholds<br> And multiplied in the daughter of Judah<br> Mourning and moaning.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/2-6.htm" target="_top"><b>6</b></a></span>And He has violently treated His tabernacle like a garden <i>booth;</i><br> He has destroyed His appointed meeting place.<br> The L<font size="1">ORD</font> has caused to be forgotten<br> The appointed feast and sabbath in Zion,<br> And He has despised king and priest<br> In the indignation of His anger.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/2-7.htm" target="_top"><b>7</b></a></span>The Lord has rejected His altar,<br> He has abandoned His sanctuary;<br> He has delivered into the hand of the enemy<br> The walls of her palaces.<br> They have made a noise in the house of the L<font size="1">ORD</font><br> As in the day of an appointed feast.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/2-8.htm" target="_top"><b>8</b></a></span>The L<font size="1">ORD</font> determined to destroy<br> The wall of the daughter of Zion.<br> He has stretched out a line,<br> He has not restrained His hand from destroying,<br> And He has caused rampart and wall to lament;<br> They have languished together.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/2-9.htm" target="_top"><b>9</b></a></span>Her gates have sunk into the ground,<br> He has destroyed and broken her bars.<br> Her king and her princes are among the nations;<br> The law is no more.<br> Also, her prophets find<br> No vision from the L<font size="1">ORD</font>.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/2-10.htm" target="_top"><b>10</b></a></span>The elders of the daughter of Zion<br> Sit on the ground, they are silent.<br> They have thrown dust on their heads;<br> They have girded themselves with sackcloth.<br> The virgins of Jerusalem<br> Have bowed their heads to the ground.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/2-11.htm" target="_top"><b>11</b></a></span>My eyes fail because of tears,<br> My spirit is greatly troubled;<br> My heart is poured out on the earth<br> Because of the destruction of the daughter of my people,<br> When little ones and infants faint<br> In the streets of the city.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/2-12.htm" target="_top"><b>12</b></a></span>They say to their mothers,<br> “Where is grain and wine?”<br> As they faint like a wounded man<br> In the streets of the city,<br> As their life is poured out<br> On their mothers’ bosom.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/2-13.htm" target="_top"><b>13</b></a></span>How shall I admonish you?<br> To what shall I compare you,<br> O daughter of Jerusalem?<br> To what shall I liken you as I comfort you,<br> O virgin daughter of Zion?<br> For your ruin is as vast as the sea;<br> Who can heal you?<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/2-14.htm" target="_top"><b>14</b></a></span>Your prophets have seen for you<br> False and foolish <i>visions;</i><br> And they have not exposed your iniquity<br> So as to restore you from captivity,<br> But they have seen for you false and misleading oracles.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/2-15.htm" target="_top"><b>15</b></a></span>All who pass along the way<br> Clap their hands <i>in derision</i> at you;<br> They hiss and shake their heads<br> At the daughter of Jerusalem,<br> “Is this the city of which they said,<br> ‘The perfection of beauty,<br> A joy to all the earth’?”<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/2-16.htm" target="_top"><b>16</b></a></span>All your enemies<br> Have opened their mouths wide against you;<br> They hiss and gnash <i>their</i> teeth.<br> They say, “We have swallowed <i>her</i> up!<br> Surely this is the day for which we waited;<br> We have reached <i>it,</i> we have seen <i>it.</i>”<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/2-17.htm" target="_top"><b>17</b></a></span>The L<font size="1">ORD</font> has done what He purposed;<br> He has accomplished His word<br> Which He commanded from days of old.<br> He has thrown down without sparing,<br> And He has caused the enemy to rejoice over you;<br> He has exalted the might of your adversaries.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/2-18.htm" target="_top"><b>18</b></a></span>Their heart cried out to the Lord,<br> “O wall of the daughter of Zion,<br> Let <i>your</i> tears run down like a river day and night;<br> Give yourself no relief,<br> Let your eyes have no rest.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/2-19.htm" target="_top"><b>19</b></a></span>“Arise, cry aloud in the night<br> At the beginning of the night watches;<br> Pour out your heart like water<br> Before the presence of the Lord;<br> Lift up your hands to Him<br> For the life of your little ones<br> Who are faint because of hunger<br> At the head of every street.”<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/2-20.htm" target="_top"><b>20</b></a></span>See, O L<font size="1">ORD</font>, and look!<br> With whom have You dealt thus?<br> Should women eat their offspring,<br> The little ones who were born healthy?<br> Should priest and prophet be slain<br> In the sanctuary of the Lord?<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/2-21.htm" target="_top"><b>21</b></a></span>On the ground in the streets<br> Lie young and old;<br> My virgins and my young men<br> Have fallen by the sword.<br> You have slain <i>them</i> in the day of Your anger,<br> You have slaughtered, not sparing.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/2-22.htm" target="_top"><b>22</b></a></span>You called as in the day of an appointed feast<br> My terrors on every side;<br> And there was no one who escaped or survived<br> In the day of the L<font size="1">ORD’S</font> anger.<br> Those whom I bore and reared,<br> My enemy annihilated them.<p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">NASB 1995 Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, Calif. 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