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He has bent his bow like an enemy;
    he has set his right hand
like a foe, and he has slain
    all the treasures of the eye;[a]
in the tent of the daughter of Zion,
    he has poured out his anger like fire.
The Lord has become like an enemy;
    he has destroyed Israel;
he has destroyed all its citadel fortresses;[b]
    he has ruined all its fortifications
and multiplied lamentation and mourning
    in the daughter of Judah.
He has broken down his dwelling[c] place like the garden;
    he has ruined his appointed feasts;
Yahweh has made them forget in Zion
    festival[d] and Sabbath,
and he has despised in his anger
    king and priest.

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 2:4 NRSV translates “all in whom we took pride”
  2. Lamentations 2:5 Or “her citadel fortresses”
  3. Lamentations 2:6 Literally “his booth”; or “his tabernacle”
  4. Lamentations 2:6 Literally “appointed time”