1 How the Lord in his angerhas set the daughter of Zion under a cloud! He has cast down from heaven to earththe splendor of Israel;he has not remembered his footstoolin the day of his anger.
2 The Lord has swallowed up without mercyall the habitations of Jacob;in his wrath he has broken downthe strongholds of the daughter of Judah;he has brought down to the ground in dishonorthe kingdom and its rulers.
3 He has cut down in fierce angerall the might of Israel; he has withdrawn from them his right handin the face of the enemy; he has burned like a flaming fire in Jacob,consuming all around.
4 He has bent his bow like an enemy,with his right hand set like a foe;and he has killed all who were delightful in our eyesin the tent of the daughter of Zion;he has poured out his fury like fire.
5 The Lord has become like an enemy; he has swallowed up Israel; he has swallowed up all its palaces;he has laid in ruins its strongholds,and he has multiplied in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.
6 He has laid waste his booth like a garden,laid in ruins his meeting place; the Lord has made Zion forgetfestival and Sabbath,and in his fierce indignation has spurned king and priest.