1 How the Lord has covered Daughter Zionwith the cloud of his anger!He has hurled down the splendour of Israelfrom heaven to earth;he has not remembered his footstoolin the day of his anger.
2 Without pity the Lord has swallowed upall the dwellings of Jacob;in his wrath he has torn downthe strongholds of Daughter Judah.He has brought her kingdom and its princesdown to the ground in dishonour.
3 In fierce anger he has cut offevery horn, of Israel.He has withdrawn his right handat the approach of the enemy.He has burned in Jacob like a flaming firethat consumes everything around it.
4 Like an enemy he has strung his bow;his right hand is ready.Like a foe he has slainall who were pleasing to the eye;he has poured out his wrath like fireon the tent of Daughter Zion.
5 The Lord is like an enemy;he has swallowed up Israel.He has swallowed up all her palacesand destroyed her strongholds.He has multiplied mourning and lamentationfor Daughter Judah.
6 He has laid waste his dwelling like a garden;he has destroyed his place of meeting.The Lord has made Zion forgether appointed festivals and her Sabbaths;in his fierce anger he has spurnedboth king and priest.
7 The Lord has rejected his altarand abandoned his sanctuary.He has given the walls of her palacesinto the hands of the enemy;they have raised a shout in the house of the Lordas on the day of an appointed festival.