Lamentations 2:1-5

New American Standard Bible

2 How the Lord has ^[a](A)covered the daughter of Zion
With a cloud in His anger!
He has ^(B)hurled
The ^(C)glory of Israel from heaven to earth,
And has not remembered His ^(D)footstool
In the day of His anger.
² The Lord has ^[b](E)destroyed; He has not spared
All the settlements of Jacob.
In His wrath He has ^(F)overthrown
The strongholds of the daughter of Judah,
He has ^(G)hurled them down to the ground;
He has ^(H)profaned the kingdom and its leaders.
³ In fierce anger He has cut off
^[c]All the ^(I)strength of Israel;
He has ^(J)pulled back His right hand
From the enemy.
And He has ^(K)burned in Jacob like a flaming fire
Consuming on all sides.
⁴ He has bent His ^(L)bow like an enemy;
His right hand is positioned like an adversary,
And He has killed everything that was ^(M)pleasant to the eye.
In the tent of the daughter of Zion
He has ^(N)poured out His wrath like fire.
⁵ The Lord has become like an ^(O)enemy.
He has ^(P)engulfed Israel;
He has engulfed all its ^(Q)palaces,
He has destroyed its strongholds
And ^(R)caused great mourning and grieving in the daughter of Judah.