The Lord has become like an (A)enemy.
He has (B)engulfed Israel;
He has engulfed all its (C)palaces,
He has destroyed its strongholds
And (D)caused great mourning and grieving in the daughter of Judah.
And He has treated His [a]tabernacle violently, like a despised garden;
He has (E)destroyed His appointed [b]meeting place.
The Lord has (F)caused
The appointed feast and Sabbath in Zion to be forgotten,
And He has (G)despised king and priest
In the indignation of His anger.
The Lord has (H)rejected His altar,
He has [c]repudiated His sanctuary;
He (I)has handed over
The walls of her palaces to the enemy.
They have made a (J)noise in the house of the Lord
As on the day of an appointed feast.

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 2:6 Or booth
  2. Lamentations 2:6 Or feast
  3. Lamentations 2:7 I.e., scornfully rejected

The Lord is like an enemy;(A)
    he has swallowed up Israel.
He has swallowed up all her palaces
    and destroyed her strongholds.(B)
He has multiplied mourning and lamentation(C)
    for Daughter Judah.(D)

He has laid waste his dwelling like a garden;
    he has destroyed(E) his place of meeting.(F)
The Lord has made Zion forget
    her appointed festivals and her Sabbaths;(G)
in his fierce anger he has spurned
    both king and priest.(H)

The Lord has rejected his altar
    and abandoned his sanctuary.(I)
He has given the walls of her palaces(J)
    into the hands of the enemy;
they have raised a shout in the house of the Lord
    as on the day of an appointed festival.(K)

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