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Gimel

In [a]hot anger He has cut in pieces
[b]All the (A)strength of Israel;
He has (B)turned back His right hand
From before the enemy.
And He has (C)burned in Jacob like a flaming fire
Devouring round about.

Daleth

He has bent His (D)bow like an enemy;
He has set His right hand like an adversary
And killed all that were (E)desirable to the eye;
In the tent of the daughter of Zion
He has (F)poured out His wrath like fire.

He

The Lord has become like an (G)enemy.
He has (H)swallowed up Israel;
He has swallowed up all its (I)palaces;
He has brought its strongholds to ruin
And (J)multiplied in the daughter of Judah
Mourning and moaning.

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 2:3 Lit burning
  2. Lamentations 2:3 Lit Every horn

He has cut off in fierce anger
Every [a]horn of Israel;
(A)He has drawn back His right hand
From before the enemy.
(B)He has blazed against Jacob like a flaming fire
Devouring all around.

(C)Standing like an enemy, He has bent His bow;
With His right hand, like an adversary,
He has slain (D)all who were pleasing to His eye;
On the tent of the daughter of Zion,
He has poured out His fury like fire.

(E)The Lord was like an enemy.
He has swallowed up Israel,
He has swallowed up all her palaces;
(F)He has destroyed her strongholds,
And has increased mourning and lamentation
In the daughter of Judah.

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 2:3 Strength