136 lines
4.3 KiB
Markdown
136 lines
4.3 KiB
Markdown
# Chapter 2
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1 How the Lord has overshadowed
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Daughter Zion with his anger!
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He has thrown down Israel’s glory
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from heaven to earth.
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He did not acknowledge his footstool
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in the day of his anger.
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2 Without compassion the Lord has swallowed up
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all the dwellings of Jacob.
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In his wrath he has demolished
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the fortified cities of Daughter Judah.
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He brought them to the ground
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and defiled the kingdom and its leaders.
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3 He has cut off every horn of Israel
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in his burning anger
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and withdrawn his right hand
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in the presence of the enemy.
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He has blazed against Jacob like a flaming fire
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that consumes everything.
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4 He has strung his bow like an enemy;
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his right hand is positioned like an adversary.
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He has killed everyone who was the delight to the eye,
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pouring out his wrath like fire
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on the tent of Daughter Zion.
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5 The Lord is like an enemy;
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he has swallowed up Israel.
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He swallowed up all its palaces
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and destroyed its fortified cities.
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He has multiplied mourning and lamentation
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within Daughter Judah.
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6 He has wrecked his temple
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as if it were merely a shack in a field,
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destroying his place of meeting.
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The Lord has abolished
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appointed festivals and Sabbaths in Zion.
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He has despised king and priest
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in his fierce anger.
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7 The Lord has rejected his altar,
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repudiated his sanctuary;
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he has handed the walls of her palaces
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over to the enemy.
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They have raised a shout in the house of the Lord
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as on the day of an appointed festival.
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8 The Lord determined to destroy
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the wall of Daughter Zion.
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He stretched out a measuring line
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and did not restrain himself from destroying.
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He made the ramparts and walls grieve;
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together they waste away.
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9 Zion’s gates have fallen to the ground;
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he has destroyed and shattered the bars on her gates.
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Her king and her leaders live among the nations,
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instruction is no more,
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and even her prophets receive
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no vision from the Lord.
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10 The elders of Daughter Zion
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sit on the ground in silence.
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They have thrown dust on their heads
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and put on sackcloth.
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The young women of Jerusalem
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have bowed their heads to the ground.
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11 My eyes are worn out from weeping;
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I am churning within.
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My heart is poured out in grief
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because of the destruction of my dear people,
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because infants and nursing babies faint
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in the streets of the city.
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12 They cry out to their mothers,
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“Where is the grain and wine?”
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as they faint like the wounded
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in the streets of the city,
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as their life pours out
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in the arms of their mothers.
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13 What can I say on your behalf?
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What can I compare you to, Daughter Jerusalem?
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What can I liken you to,
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so that I may console you, Virgin Daughter Zion?
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For your ruin is as vast as the sea.
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Who can heal you?
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14 Your prophets saw visions for you
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that were empty and deceptive;
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they did not reveal your iniquity
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and so restore your fortunes.
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They saw pronouncements for you
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that were empty and misleading.
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15 All who pass by
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scornfully clap their hands at you.
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They hiss and shake their heads
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at Daughter Jerusalem:
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Is this the city that was called
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the perfection of beauty,
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the joy of the whole earth?
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16 All your enemies
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open their mouths against you.
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They hiss and gnash their teeth,
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saying, “We have swallowed her up.
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This is the day we have waited for!
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We have lived to see it.”
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17 The Lord has done what he planned;
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he has accomplished his decree,
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which he ordained in days of old.
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He has demolished without compassion,
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letting the enemy gloat over you
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and exalting the horn of your adversaries.
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18 The hearts of the people cry out to the Lord.
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Wall of Daughter Zion,
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let your tears run down like a river
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day and night.
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Give yourself no relief
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and your eyes no rest.
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19 Arise, cry out in the night
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from the first watch of the night.
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Pour out your heart like water
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before the Lord’s presence.
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Lift up your hands to him
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for the lives of your children
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who are fainting from hunger
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at the head of every street.
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20 Lord, look and consider
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to whom you have done this.
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Should women eat their own children,
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the infants they have nurtured?
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Should priests and prophets
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be killed in the Lord’s sanctuary?
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21 Both young and old
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are lying on the ground in the streets.
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My young women and young men
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have fallen by the sword.
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You have killed them in the day of your anger,
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slaughtering without compassion.
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22 You summon those who terrorize me on every side,
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as if for an appointed festival day;
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on the day of the Lord’s anger
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no one escaped or survived.
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My enemy has destroyed
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those I nurtured and reared. |