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He has bent his bow like an enemy.
    He has stood with his right hand as an adversary.
He has killed all that were pleasant to the eye.
    In the tent of the daughter of Zion, he has poured out his wrath like fire.

The Lord has become as an enemy.
    He has swallowed up Israel.
He has swallowed up all her palaces.
    He has destroyed his strongholds.
    He has multiplied mourning and lamentation in the daughter of Judah.

He has violently taken away his tabernacle,
    as if it were a garden.
He has destroyed his place of assembly.
    Yahweh has caused solemn assembly and Sabbath to be forgotten in Zion.
    In the indignation of his anger, he has despised the king and the priest.

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