129 lines
4.5 KiB
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129 lines
4.5 KiB
Markdown
# Chapter 2
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1 How the Lord has covered the daughter of Zion
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With a cloud in His anger!
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He cast down from heaven to the earth
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The beauty of Israel,
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And did not remember His footstool
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In the day of His anger.
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2 The Lord has swallowed up and has not pitied
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All the dwelling places of Jacob.
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He has thrown down in His wrath
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The strongholds of the daughter of Judah;
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He has brought them down to the ground;
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He has profaned the kingdom and its princes.
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3 He has cut off in fierce anger
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Every horn of Israel;
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He has drawn back His right hand
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From before the enemy.
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He has blazed against Jacob like a flaming fire
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Devouring all around.
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4 Standing like an enemy, He has bent His bow;
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With His right hand, like an adversary,
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He has slain all who were pleasing to His eye;
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On the tent of the daughter of Zion,
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He has poured out His fury like fire.
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5 The Lord was like an enemy.
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He has swallowed up Israel,
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He has swallowed up all her palaces;
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He has destroyed her strongholds,
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And has increased mourning and lamentation
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In the daughter of Judah.
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6 He has done violence to His tabernacle,
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As if it were a garden;
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He has destroyed His place of assembly;
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The Lord has caused
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The appointed feasts and Sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion.
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In His burning indignation He has spurned the king and the priest.
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7 The Lord has spurned His altar,
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He has abandoned His sanctuary;
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He has given up the walls of her palaces
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Into the hand of the enemy.
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They have made a noise in the house of the Lord
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As on the day of a set feast.
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8 The Lord has purposed to destroy
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The wall of the daughter of Zion.
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He has stretched out a line;
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He has not withdrawn His hand from destroying;
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Therefore He has caused the rampart and wall to lament;
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They languished together.
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9 Her gates have sunk into the ground;
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He has destroyed and broken her bars.
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Her king and her princes are among the nations;
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The Law is no more,
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And her prophets find no vision from the Lord.
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10 The elders of the daughter of Zion
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Sit on the ground and keep silence;
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They throw dust on their heads
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And gird themselves with sackcloth.
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The virgins of Jerusalem
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Bow their heads to the ground.
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11 My eyes fail with tears,
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My heart is troubled;
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My bile is poured on the ground
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Because of the destruction of the daughter of my people,
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Because the children and the infants
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Faint in the streets of the city.
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12 They say to their mothers,
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“Where is grain and wine?”
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As they swoon like the wounded
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In the streets of the city,
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As their life is poured out
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In their mothers’ bosom.
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13 How shall I console you?
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To what shall I liken you,
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O daughter of Jerusalem?
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What shall I compare with you, that I may comfort you,
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O virgin daughter of Zion?
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For your ruin is spread wide as the sea;
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Who can heal you?
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14 Your prophets have seen for you
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False and deceptive visions;
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They have not uncovered your iniquity,
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To bring back your captives,
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But have envisioned for you false prophecies and delusions.
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15 All who pass by clap their hands at you;
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They hiss and shake their heads
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At the daughter of Jerusalem:
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“Is this the city that is 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 have opened their mouth against you;
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They hiss and gnash their teeth.
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They say, “We have swallowed her up!
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Surely this is the day we have waited for;
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We have found it, we have seen it!”
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17 The Lord has done what He purposed;
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He has fulfilled His word
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Which He commanded in days of old.
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He has thrown down and has not pitied,
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And He has caused an enemy to rejoice over you;
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He has exalted the horn of your adversaries.
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18 Their heart cried out to the Lord,
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“O wall of the daughter of Zion,
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Let tears run down like a river day and night;
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Give yourself no relief;
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Give your eyes no rest.
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19 “Arise, cry out in the night,
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At the beginning of the watches;
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Pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord.
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Lift your hands toward Him
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For the life of your young children,
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Who faint from hunger at the head of every street.”
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20 “See, O Lord, and consider!
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To whom have You done this?
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Should the women eat their offspring,
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The children they have cuddled?
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Should the priest and prophet be slain
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In the sanctuary of the Lord?
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21 “Young and old lie
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On the ground in the streets;
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My virgins and my young men
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Have fallen by the sword;
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You have slain them in the day of Your anger,
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You have slaughtered and not pitied.
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22 “You have invited as to a feast day
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The terrors that surround me.
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In the day of the Lord’s anger
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There was no refugee or survivor.
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Those whom I have borne and brought up
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My enemies have destroyed.” |