LORD has swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and has not pitied. In his wrath he has thrown down the strongholds of the daughter of Judah. He has brought them down to the ground. He has profaned the kingdom and the rulers th

In fierce anger he has cut off all the horn of Israel. He has drawn back his right hand from before the enemy. And he has burned up Jacob like a flaming fire which devours round about.

He has bent his bow like an enemy. He has stood with his right hand as an adversary, and has slain all who were pleasant to the eye. He has poured out his wrath like fire in the tent of the daughter of Zion.

LORD has become as an enemy. He has swallowed up Israel. He has swallowed up all her palaces. He has destroyed his strongholds. And he has multiplied mourning and lamentation in the daughter of Judah.

LORD has purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion. He has stretched out the line. He has not withdrawn his hand from destroying. And he has made the rampart and wall to lament, they languish together.

All who pass by clap their hands at thee. They hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, [saying], Is this the city that men called The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?

All thine enemies have opened their mouth wide against thee. They hiss and gnash the teeth. They say, We have swallowed her up. Certainly this is the day that we looked for. We have found, we have seen it.

Their heart cried to LORD. O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night. Give thyself no respite. Let not the apple of thine eye cease.

Surely he turns his hand against me, again and again all the day.

I have become a derision to all my people, and their song all the day.

LORD is my portion, says my soul, therefore I will hope in him.

For LORD will not cast off forever.

For though he causes grief, yet he will have compassion according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.

To crush under foot all the prisoners of the earth,

All our enemies have opened their mouth wide against us.

My eye stirs my soul, because of all the daughters of my city.

Thou have seen all their vengeance and all their devices against me.

Thou have heard their reproach, O LORD, and all their devices against me,

the lips of those who rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.

Thou will render to them a recompense, O LORD, according to the work of their hands.

Thou will give them hardness of heart, thy curse to them.

Thou will pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the heavens of LORD.

The kings of the earth did not believe, nor all the inhabitants of the world, that the adversary and the enemy would enter into the gates of Jerusalem.

The anger of LORD has scattered them. He will no more regard them. They did not respect the persons of the priests. They did not favor the elders.

The punishment of thine iniquity is accomplished, O daughter of Zion. He will no more carry thee away into captivity. He will visit thine iniquity, O daughter of Edom. He will uncover thy sins.