3 He has cut off every horn of Israelin His burning angerand withdrawn His right hand in the presence of the enemy.He has blazed against Jacob like a flaming firethat consumes everything.
4 He has bent His bow like an enemy; His right hand is positioned like an adversary.He has killed everyone who was loved, pouring out His wrath like fireon the tent of Daughter Zion.
5 The Lord is like an enemy;He has swallowed up Israel.He swallowed up all its palacesand destroyed its fortified cities.He has multiplied mourning and lamentationwithin Daughter Judah.
6 He has done violence to His temple as if it were a garden booth,destroying His place of meeting. The Lord has abolishedappointed festivals and Sabbaths in Zion.He has despised king and priestin His fierce anger.
7 The Lord has rejected His altar,repudiated His sanctuary; He has handed the walls of her palacesover to the enemy.They have raised a shout in the house of the Lordas on the day of an appointed festival.
8 The Lord determined to destroythe wall of Daughter Zion.He stretched out a measuring line and did not restrain Himself from destroying.He made the ramparts and walls grieve;together they waste away.
9 Zion’s gates have fallen to the ground; He has destroyed and shattered the bars on her gates.Her king and her leaders live among the nations,instruction is no more,and even her prophets receiveno vision from the Lord.