⁴ Sing^(H) the praises of the Lord, you his faithful people;^(I)
    praise his holy name.^(J)
5 For his anger^(K) lasts only a moment,^(L)
    but his favor lasts a lifetime;^(M)
weeping^(N) may stay for the night,
    but rejoicing comes in the morning.^(O)

⁶ When I felt secure, I said,
    “I will never be shaken.”^(P)
7 Lord, when you favored me,
    you made my royal mountain^[c] stand firm;
but when you hid your face,^(Q)
    I was dismayed.

⁸ To you, Lord, I called;
    to the Lord I cried for mercy:
⁹ “What is gained if I am silenced,
    if I go down to the pit?^(R)
Will the dust praise you?
    Will it proclaim your faithfulness?^(S)
10 Hear,^(T) Lord, and be merciful to me;^(U)
    Lord, be my help.^(V)”

¹¹ You turned my wailing^(W) into dancing;^(X)
    you removed my sackcloth^(Y) and clothed me with joy,^(Z)
12 that my heart may sing your praises and not be silent.
    Lord my God, I will praise^(AA) you forever.^(AB)

2 ^[a]How the Lord has covered Daughter Zion
    with the cloud of his anger^[b]!^(A)
He has hurled down the splendor of Israel
    from heaven to earth;
he has not remembered his footstool^(B)
    in the day of his anger.^(C)

² Without pity^(D) the Lord has swallowed^(E) up
    all the dwellings of Jacob;
in his wrath he has torn down
    the strongholds^(F) of Daughter Judah.
He has brought her kingdom and its princes
    down to the ground^(G) in dishonor.

³ In fierce anger he has cut off
    every horn^[c][d](H) of Israel.
He has withdrawn his right hand^(I)
    at the approach of the enemy.
He has burned in Jacob like a flaming fire
    that consumes everything around it.^(J)

⁴ Like an enemy he has strung his bow;^(K)
    his right hand is ready.
Like a foe he has slain
    all who were pleasing to the eye;^(L)
he has poured out his wrath^(M) like fire^(N)
    on the tent^(O) of Daughter Zion.

⁵ The Lord is like an enemy;^(P)
    he has swallowed up Israel.
He has swallowed up all her palaces
    and destroyed her strongholds.^(Q)
He has multiplied mourning and lamentation^(R)
    for Daughter Judah.^(S)

⁶ He has laid waste his dwelling like a garden;
    he has destroyed^(T) his place of meeting.^(U)
The Lord has made Zion forget
    her appointed festivals and her Sabbaths;^(V)
in his fierce anger he has spurned
    both king and priest.^(W)

⁷ The Lord has rejected his altar
    and abandoned his sanctuary.^(X)
He has given the walls of her palaces^(Y)
    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.^(Z)

⁸ The Lord determined to tear down
    the wall around Daughter Zion.^(AA)
He stretched out a measuring line^(AB)
    and did not withhold his hand from destroying.
He made ramparts^(AC) and walls lament;
    together they wasted away.^(AD)

⁹ Her gates^(AE) have sunk into the ground;
    their bars^(AF) he has broken and destroyed.
Her king and her princes are exiled^(AG) among the nations,
    the law^(AH) is no more,
and her prophets^(AI) no longer find
    visions^(AJ) from the Lord.

¹⁰ The elders of Daughter Zion
    sit on the ground in silence;^(AK)
they have sprinkled dust^(AL) on their heads^(AM)
    and put on sackcloth.^(AN)
The young women of Jerusalem
    have bowed their heads to the ground.^(AO)

¹¹ My eyes fail from weeping,^(AP)
    I am in torment within^(AQ);
my heart^(AR) is poured out^(AS) on the ground
    because my people are destroyed,^(AT)
because children and infants faint^(AU)
    in the streets of the city.

¹² They say to their mothers,
    “Where is bread and wine?”^(AV)
as they faint like the wounded
    in the streets of the city,
as their lives ebb away^(AW)
    in their mothers’ arms.^(AX)