Lamentations 2:5-9

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⁵ The Lord is like an enemy;^(A)
    he has swallowed up Israel.
He has swallowed up all her palaces
    and destroyed her strongholds.^(B)
He has multiplied mourning and lamentation^(C)
    for Daughter Judah.^(D)

⁶ He has laid waste his dwelling like a garden;
    he has destroyed^(E) his place of meeting.^(F)
The Lord has made Zion forget
    her appointed festivals and her Sabbaths;^(G)
in his fierce anger he has spurned
    both king and priest.^(H)

⁷ The Lord has rejected his altar
    and abandoned his sanctuary.^(I)
He has given the walls of her palaces^(J)
    into the hands of the enemy;
they have raised a shout in the house of the Lord
    as on the day of an appointed festival.^(K)

⁸ The Lord determined to tear down
    the wall around Daughter Zion.^(L)
He stretched out a measuring line^(M)
    and did not withhold his hand from destroying.
He made ramparts^(N) and walls lament;
    together they wasted away.^(O)

⁹ Her gates^(P) have sunk into the ground;
    their bars^(Q) he has broken and destroyed.
Her king and her princes are exiled^(R) among the nations,
    the law^(S) is no more,
and her prophets^(T) no longer find
    visions^(U) from the Lord.