Lamentations 2:5-7

Modern English Version

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.

⁶ He has violently taken away His tabernacle as if it were a garden;
    He has destroyed His place of assembly;
the Lord has caused the solemn feasts and Sabbaths
    to be forgotten in Zion.
In his fierce indignation He has despised the king and the priest.

⁷ The Lord has scorned His altar,
    He has disowned His sanctuary;
He has given up the walls of her palaces
    into the hand of the enemy.
They have made a noise in the house of the Lord
    as on the day of a solemn feast.