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Chapter 2

The Judgment of the Lord

Behold how the Lord in his anger
    has enveloped in darkness the daughter of Zion.
He has hurled down from heaven to earth
    the glory of Israel,
without any sign of regard for his footstool
    on the day of his anger.

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[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)

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 2:1 This chapter is an acrostic poem, the verses of which begin with the successive letters of the Hebrew alphabet.
  2. Lamentations 2:1 Or How the Lord in his anger / has treated Daughter Zion with contempt