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He hath bent his bow like an enemy, he hath stood with his right hand as an adversary,
And hath slain all that were pleasant to the eye:
[a]In the tent of the daughter of Zion he hath poured out his wrath like fire.
The Lord is become as an enemy, he hath swallowed up Israel;
He hath swallowed up all her palaces, he hath destroyed his strongholds;
And he hath multiplied in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.
And he hath violently taken away his [b]tabernacle, as if it were of a garden; he hath destroyed his place of assembly:
Jehovah hath caused [c]solemn assembly and sabbath to be forgotten in Zion,
And hath despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest.

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 2:4 Or, On
  2. Lamentations 2:6 Or, booth. Or, hedge
  3. Lamentations 2:6 Or, appointed feast