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.
8 The Lord has purposed to destroythe wall of the daughter of Zion.He has stretched out a line;He has not withdrawn His hand from destroying;therefore He caused the rampart and the wall to lament;they languished together.
9 Her gates have sunk into the ground;He has destroyed and broken her bars.Her king and her princes are among the nations;the Law is no more,and her prophets findno vision from the Lord.
10 The elders of the daughter of Zionsit on the ground in silence;they throw dust on their headsand gird themselves with sackcloth.The virgins of Jerusalembow their heads to the ground.
11 My eyes fail with tears,my spirit is greatly troubled;my bile is poured on the groundbecause of the destruction of the daughter of my people,because the children and infants faintin the streets of the city.