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<p class="indent2"> His right hand is positioned. <p class="indent1"> Like a foe He has killed <p class="indent2"> all who were pleasing to the eye; <p class="indent1"> He has poured out His wrath like fire <p class="indent2"> on the tent of the Daughter of Zion. <A name="6"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/2-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>The Lord is like an enemy; <p class="indent2"> He has swallowed up Israel. <p class="indent1"> He has swallowed up all her palaces <p class="indent2"> and destroyed her strongholds. <p class="indent1"> He has multiplied mourning and lamentation <p class="indent2"> for the Daughter of Judah. <A name="7"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/2-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>He has laid waste His tabernacle like a garden booth; <p class="indent2"> He has destroyed His place of meeting. <p class="indent1"> The LORD has made Zion forget <p class="indent2"> her appointed feasts and Sabbaths. <p class="indent1"> In His fierce anger <p class="indent2"> He has despised both king and priest. <A name="8"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/2-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>The Lord has rejected His altar; <p class="indent2"> He has abandoned His sanctuary; <p class="indent1"> He has delivered the walls of her palaces <p class="indent2"> into the hand of the enemy. <p class="indent1"> They have raised a shout in the house of the LORD <p class="indent2"> as on the day of an appointed feast. <A name="9"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/2-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>The LORD determined to destroy <p class="indent2"> the wall of the Daughter of Zion. <p class="indent1"> He stretched out a measuring line <p class="indent2"> and did not withdraw His hand from destroying. <p class="indent1"> He made the ramparts and walls lament; <p class="indent2"> together they waste away. <A name="10"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/2-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Her gates have sunk into the ground; <p class="indent2"> He has destroyed and shattered their bars. <p class="indent1"> Her king and her princes are exiled among the nations, <p class="indent2"> the law is no more, <p class="indent1"> and even her prophets <p class="indent2"> find no vision from the LORD. <A name="11"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/2-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>The elders of the Daughter of Zion <p class="indent2"> sit on the ground in silence. <p class="indent1"> They have thrown dust on their heads <p class="indent2"> and put on sackcloth. <p class="indent1"> The young women of Jerusalem <p class="indent2"> have bowed their heads to the ground. <A name="12"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/2-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>My eyes fail from weeping; <p class="indent2"> I am churning within. <p class="indent1"> My heart is poured out in grief <p class="indent2"> over the destruction of the daughter of my people, <p class="indent1"> because children and infants faint <p class="indent2"> in the streets of the city. <A name="13"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/2-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>They cry out to their mothers: <p class="indent2"> “Where is the grain and wine?” <p class="indent1"> as they faint like the wounded <p class="indent2"> in the streets of the city, <p class="indent1"> as their lives fade away <p class="indent2"> in the arms of their mothers. <A name="14"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/2-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>What can I say for you? <p class="indent2"> To what can I compare you, <p class="indent2"> O Daughter of Jerusalem? <p class="indent1"> To what can I liken you, <p class="indent2"> that I may console you, <p class="indent2"> O Virgin Daughter of Zion? <p class="indent1"> For your wound is as deep as the sea. <p class="indent2"> Who can ever heal you? <A name="15"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/2-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>The visions of your prophets <p class="indent2"> were empty and deceptive; <p class="indent1"> they did not expose your guilt <p class="indent2"> to ward off your captivity. <p class="indent1"> The burdens they envisioned for you <p class="indent2"> were empty and misleading. <A name="16"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/2-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>All who pass by <p class="indent2"> clap their hands at you in scorn. <p class="indent1"> They hiss and shake their heads <p class="indent2"> at the Daughter of Jerusalem: <p class="indent1"> “Is this the city that was called <p class="indent2"> the perfection of beauty, <p class="indent2"> the joy of all the earth?” <A name="17"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/2-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>All your enemies <p class="indent2"> open their mouths against you. <p class="indent1"> They hiss and gnash their teeth, <p class="indent2"> saying, “We have swallowed her up. <p class="indent1"> This is the day for which we have waited. <p class="indent2"> We have lived to see it!” <A name="18"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/2-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>The LORD has done what He planned; <p class="indent2"> He has accomplished His decree, <p class="indent1"> which He ordained in days of old; <p class="indent2"> He has overthrown you without pity. <p class="indent1"> He has let the enemy gloat over you <p class="indent2"> and exalted the horn<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">c</a></span> of your foes. <A name="19"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/2-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>The hearts of the people <p class="indent2"> cry out to the Lord.<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">d</a></span> <p class="indent1"> O wall of the Daughter of Zion, <p class="indent2"> let your tears run down like a river <p class="indent2"> day and night. <p class="indent1"> Give yourself no relief, <p class="indent2"> and your eyes no rest. <A name="20"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/2-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Arise, cry out in the night <p class="indent2"> from the first watch of the night.<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">e</a></span> <p class="indent1"> Pour out your heart like water <p class="indent2"> in the presence of the Lord. <p class="indent1"> Lift up your hands to Him <p class="indent2"> for the lives of your children <p class="indent1"> who are fainting from hunger <p class="indent2"> on the corner of every street. <A name="21"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/2-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Look, O LORD, and consider: <p class="indent2"> Whom have You ever treated like this? <p class="indent1"> Should women eat their offspring, <p class="indent2"> the infants they have nurtured? <p class="indent1"> Should priests and prophets be killed <p class="indent2"> in the sanctuary of the Lord? <A name="22"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/2-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Both young and old lie together <p class="indent2"> in the dust of the streets. <p class="indent1"> My young men and maidens <p class="indent2"> have fallen by the sword. <p class="indent1"> You have slain them in the day of Your anger; <p class="indent2"> You have slaughtered them without compassion. <p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/2-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>You summoned my attackers on every side, <p class="indent2"> as for the day of an appointed feast. <p class="indent1"> In the day of the LORD’s anger <p class="indent2"> no one escaped or survived; <p class="indent1"> my enemy has destroyed <p class="indent2"> those I nurtured and reared.</p><A name="fn"></a><div id="fnlink"><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:</b><br><br><span class="fnverse">1</span> <span class="footnotesbot">a</span> This chapter is an acrostic poem, each verse beginning with the successive letters of the Hebrew alphabet.<br><span class="fnverse">3</span> <span class="footnotesbot">b</span> Or <i>all the strength</i><span class="thin"> </span><br><span class="fnverse">17</span> <span class="footnotesbot">c</span> Or <i>the strength</i><span class="thin"> </span><br><span class="fnverse">18</span> <span class="footnotesbot">d</span> Literally <i>Their heart cries out to the Lord.</i><span class="thin"> </span><br><span class="fnverse">19</span> <span class="footnotesbot">e</span> That is, between six and nine at night<br><br /></div><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Berean Bible (<a href=http://berean.bible>www.Berean.Bible</a>) <a href=http://bereanbible.com>Berean Study Bible (BSB)</a> © 2016, 2020 by <a href=http://biblehub.com>Bible Hub</a> and <a href=http://berean.bible>Berean.Bible</a>. 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