Lamentations 2:1

New International Version

2 ^[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

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

Lamentations 2:1 in all English translations

Isaiah 47:1

New International Version

The Fall of Babylon

47 “Go down, sit in the dust,^(A)
    Virgin Daughter^(B) Babylon;
sit on the ground without a throne,
    queen city of the Babylonians.^[a]^(C)
No more will you be called
    tender or delicate.^(D)

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Isaiah 47:1 Or Chaldeans; also in verse 5

Isaiah 47:1 in all English translations

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