1 How the Lord has covered the daughter of Zionwith a cloud in His anger!He has cast down from heaven to the earththe beauty 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 thrown downthe strongholds of the daughter of Judah;He has brought them down to the ground;He has profaned the kingdom and its princes.
3 He has cut off in fierce angerall the might of Israel;He has drawn back His right handfrom before the enemy.He has burned against Jacoblike a flaming fire, devouring all around.
4 He has bent His bow like an enemy,with his right hand set like an adversary;He has killed all who were pleasant to His eye;in the tabernacle 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 her palaces;He has destroyed her strongholds,and has increased mourning and lamentationin the daughter of Judah.
6 He has violently taken away His tabernacle as if it were a garden;He has destroyed His place of assembly;the Lord has caused the solemn feasts and Sabbathsto be forgotten in Zion.In his fierce indignation He has despised the king and the priest.
7 The Lord has scorned His altar,He has disowned His sanctuary;He has given up the walls of her palacesinto the hand of the enemy.They have made a noise in the house of the Lordas on the day of a solemn feast.