⁴ Like an enemy he has strung his bow;^(A)
    his right hand is ready.
Like a foe he has slain
    all who were pleasing to the eye;^(B)
he has poured out his wrath^(C) like fire^(D)
    on the tent^(E) of Daughter Zion.

⁵ The Lord is like an enemy;^(F)
    he has swallowed up Israel.
He has swallowed up all her palaces
    and destroyed her strongholds.^(G)
He has multiplied mourning and lamentation^(H)
    for Daughter Judah.^(I)

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