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The Lord has become like an enemy;
    he has destroyed Israel;
he has destroyed all its citadel fortresses;[a]
    he has ruined all its fortifications
and multiplied lamentation and mourning
    in the daughter of Judah.
He has broken down his dwelling[b] place like the garden;
    he has ruined his appointed feasts;
Yahweh has made them forget in Zion
    festival[c] and Sabbath,
and he has despised in his anger
    king and priest.
The Lord has rejected his altar;
    he has rejected his sanctuary;
he has delivered into the hands of the enemy
    the walls of its citadel fortresses.[d]
They have cried out in the house of Yahweh
    like a day of an appointed feast.

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 2:5 Or “her citadel fortresses”
  2. Lamentations 2:6 Literally “his booth”; or “his tabernacle”
  3. Lamentations 2:6 Literally “appointed time”
  4. Lamentations 2:7 Or “her citadel fortress”