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My Lord rejected his altar, he abandoned his sanctuary;
he handed Zion’s palace walls over to enemies.
They shouted in the Lord’s own house as if it were a festival day.

The Lord planned to destroy Daughter Zion’s wall.
He stretched out a measuring line, didn’t stop himself from devouring.
He made barricades and walls wither—together they wasted away.

Zion’s gates sank into the ground; he broke and shattered her bars;
her king and her officials are now among the nations. There is no Instruction![a]
Even her prophets couldn’t find a vision from the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 2:9 Heb Torah

The Lord has rejected his altar
    and abandoned his sanctuary.(A)
He has given the walls of her palaces(B)
    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.(C)

The Lord determined to tear down
    the wall around Daughter Zion.(D)
He stretched out a measuring line(E)
    and did not withhold his hand from destroying.
He made ramparts(F) and walls lament;
    together they wasted away.(G)

Her gates(H) have sunk into the ground;
    their bars(I) he has broken and destroyed.
Her king and her princes are exiled(J) among the nations,
    the law(K) is no more,
and her prophets(L) no longer find
    visions(M) from the Lord.

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