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He bent His bow like an enemy,
    set His right hand like a foe,
and killed all those pleasant to the eye.
In the tent of the daughter of Zion
    He has poured out His wrath like fire.
My Lord is like an enemy.
        He has swallowed up Israel.
    He swallowed up all her citadels,
        destroyed her fortifications
    and multiplied mourning and moaning
        for the daughter of Judah.
Like the garden He laid waste His dwelling,
    destroyed His appointed meeting place.
Adonai has caused moed and Shabbat
    to be forgotten in Zion.
In the indignation of His anger
    He spurned king and kohen.

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