1 How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger, and cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel,and remembered not his footstool in the day of his anger!
2 The Lord hath swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob,and hath not pitied:he hath thrown down in his wrath the strongholds of the daughter of Judah;he hath brought them down to the ground:he hath polluted the kingdom and the princes thereof.
3 He hath cut off in his fierce anger all the horn of Israel:he hath drawn back his right hand from before the enemy,and he burned against Jacob like a flaming fire, which devoureth round about.
4 He hath bent his bow like an enemy:he stood with his right hand as an adversary,and slew all that were pleasant to the eye in the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion:he poured out his fury like fire.
5 The Lord was as an enemy:he hath swallowed up Israel,he hath swallowed up all her palaces:he hath destroyed his strongholds,and hath increased in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.
6 And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden;he hath destroyed his places of the assembly:the Lord hath caused the solemn feasts and sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion,and hath despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest.
7 The Lord 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 the Lord,as in the day of a solemn feast.