Lamentations 2:3-5

Modern English Version

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.

⁵ The Lord has become like an enemy;
    He has swallowed up Israel,
He has swallowed up all her palaces;
    He has destroyed her strongholds,
and has increased mourning and lamentation
    in the daughter of Judah.