Lamentations 2:2-4

Modern English Version

² The Lord has swallowed up without mercy
    all the habitations of Jacob;
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 its princes.

³ He has cut off in fierce anger
    all the might of Israel;
He has drawn back His right hand
    from before the enemy.
He has burned against Jacob
    like a flaming fire, devouring all around.

⁴ He has bent His bow like an enemy,
    with his right hand set like an adversary;
    He has killed all who were pleasant to His eye;
in the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion,
    He has poured out His fury like fire.