Book 32 : KETUVIM - MEGILOT - LAMENTATIONS - Chapter 002
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How hath the L-rd covered with a cloud the daughter of Zion
in His anger! He hath cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel,
and hath not remembered His footstool in the day of His anger
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The L-rd hath swallowed up unsparingly all the habitations
of Jacob; He hath thrown down in His wrath the strongholds of the daughter of
Judah; He hath brought them down to the ground; He hath profaned the kingdom and
the princes thereof
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He hath cut off in fierce anger all the horn of Israel; He
hath drawn back His right hand from before the enemy; and He hath burned in
Jacob like a flaming fire, which devoureth round about
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He hath bent His bow like an enemy, standing with His right
hand as an adversary, and hath slain all that were pleasant to the eye; in the
tent of the daughter of Zion He hath poured out His fury like fire
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The L-rd is become as an enemy, He hath swallowed up
Israel; He hath swallowed up all her palaces, He hath destroyed his strongholds;
and He hath multiplied in the daughter of Judah mourning and moaning
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And He hath stripped His tabernacle, as if it were a
garden, He hath destroyed His place of assembly; HaShem hath caused to be
forgotten in Zion appointed season and sabbath, and hath rejected in the
indignation of His anger the king and the priest
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The L-rd hath cast off His altar, He hath abhorred His
sanctuary, He hath given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces;
they have made a noise in the house of HaShem, as in the day of a solemn
assembly
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HaShem hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of
Zion; He hath stretched out the line, He hath not withdrawn His hand from
destroying; but He hath made the rampart and wall to mourn, they languish
together
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Her gates are sunk into the ground; He hath destroyed and
broken her bars; her king and her princes are among the nations, instruction is
no more; yea, her prophets find no vision from HaShem
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They sit upon the ground, and keep silence, the elders of
the daughter of Zion; they have cast up dust upon their heads, they have girded
themselves with sackcloth; the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the
ground
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Mine eyes do fail with tears, mine inwards burn, my liver
is poured upon the earth, for the breach of the daughter of my people; because
the young children and the sucklings swoon in the broad places of the city
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They say to their mothers: 'Where is corn and wine?' when
they swoon as the wounded in the broad places of the city, when their soul is
poured out into their mothers' bosom
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What shall I take to witness for thee? What shall I liken
to thee, O daughter of Jerusalem? What shall I equal to thee, that I may comfort
thee, O virgin daughter of Zion? For thy breach is great like the sea; who can
heal thee
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Thy prophets have seen visions for thee of vanity and
delusion; and they have not uncovered thine iniquity, to bring back thy
captivity; but have prophesied for thee burdens of vanity and seduction
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All that pass by clap their hands at thee; they hiss and
wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem: 'Is this the city that men called
the perfection of beauty, the joy of the whole earth?
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All thine enemies have opened their mouth wide against
thee; they hiss and gnash the teeth; they say: 'We have swallowed her up;
certainly this is the day that we looked for; we have found, we have seen it.
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HaShem hath done that which He devised; He hath performed
His word that He commanded in the days of old; He hath thrown down unsparingly;
and He hath caused the enemy to rejoice over thee, He hath exalted the horn of
thine adversaries
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Their heart cried unto the L-rd: 'O wall of the daughter
of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night; give thyself no respite;
let not the apple of thine eye cease
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Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the
watches; pour out thy heart like water before the face of the L-rd; lift up thy
hands toward Him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger at
the head of every street.
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'See, O HaShem, and consider, to whom Thou hast done thus!
Shall the women eat their fruit, the children that are dandled in the hands?
Shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the L-rd
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The youth and the old man lie on the ground in the
streets; my virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword; Thou hast slain
them in the day of Thine anger; Thou hast slaughtered unsparingly
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Thou hast called, as in the day of a solemn assembly, my
terrors on every side, and there was none in the day of HaShem'S anger that
escaped or remained; those that I have dandled and brought up hath mine enemy
consumed.
Book 32 : KETUVIM - MEGILOT - LAMENTATIONS - Chapter 002
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