Lamentations 2:6-8

International Children’s Bible

⁶ He has destroyed his Temple as if it were a garden tent.
    He has destroyed the place where he met with his people.
The Lord has made Jerusalem forget
    the set feasts and Sabbath days.
He has rejected the king and the priest
    in his great anger.

⁷ The Lord has rejected his altar
    and abandoned his Temple.
He has given to the enemy
    the walls of Jerusalem’s palaces.
The enemy shouted in the Lord’s Temple
    as if it were a feast day.

⁸ The Lord planned to destroy
    the wall around Jerusalem.
He marked the wall off with a measuring line.
    He did not stop himself from destroying it.
He made the walls and defenses sad.
    Together they have fallen.