1 How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger!
2 The Lord hath swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and hath not pitied:
3 He hath cut off in fierce anger all the horn of Israel;
4 He hath bent his bow like an enemy, he hath stood with his right hand as an adversary,
5 The Lord is become as an enemy, he hath swallowed up Israel;
6 And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden; he hath destroyed his place of assembly:
7 The Lord hath cast off his altar, he hath abhorred his sanctuary;
8 Jehovah hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion;
9 Her gates are sunk into the ground; he hath destroyed and broken her bars:
10 The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, they keep silence;
11 Mine eyes do fail with tears, my heart is troubled;
12 They say to their mothers, Where is grain and wine?
13 What shall I testify unto thee? what shall I liken to thee, O daughter of Jerusalem?
14 Thy prophets have seen for thee false and foolish visions;
15 All that pass by clap their hands at thee;
16 All thine enemies have opened their mouth wide against thee;
17 Jehovah hath done that which he purposed; he hath fulfilled his word that he commanded in the days of old;
18 Their heart cried unto the Lord:
19 Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches;
20 See, O Jehovah, and behold to whom thou hast done thus!
21 The youth and the old man lie on the ground in the streets;
22 Thou hast called, as in the day of a solemn assembly, my terrors on every side;