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.
8 The Lord hath purposed to destroythe wall of the daughter of Zion:he hath stretched out a line,he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying:therefore he made the rampart and the wall to lament;they languished together.
9 Her gates are sunk into the ground;he hath destroyed and broken her bars:her king and her princes are among the Gentiles:the law is no more;her prophets also find no vision from the Lord.
10 The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, and keep silence: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.