Lamentations 2:6-8

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⁶ He has knocked down his own holy house
as easily as someone can knock down a hut in a garden.
He has destroyed this place where people once met him.
The Lord has caused Zion's people to forget
the special events and the Sabbath days in his holy house.^[a]
He was very angry.
So he thought that our king and our priests were not important.
He refused to help them.
⁷ His holy house and his altar there
no longer give pleasure to the Lord.
He has given Zion's most beautiful houses to the enemy.^[b]
They shout in the holy house of the Lord
as people shout on a special holy day.
⁸ The Lord decided to destroy the strong walls of Zion.
He carefully broke away each stone.
It causes us to weep when we look at those walls.
He destroyed them all.
He destroyed the inside walls and he destroyed the strong outside walls.