5 The Lord was 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 done violence to His tabernacle,As if it were a garden;He has destroyed His place of assembly;The Lord has causedThe appointed feasts and Sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion.In His burning indignation He has spurned the king and the priest.
7 The Lord has spurned His altar,He has abandoned 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 set 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8 The Lord has purposed to destroyThe wall of the daughter of Zion.He has stretched out a line;He has not withdrawn His hand from destroying;Therefore He has caused the rampart and wall to lament;They languished together.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 find no vision from the Lord.
10 The elders of the daughter of ZionSit on the ground and keep 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 heart is troubled;My bile is poured on the groundBecause of the destruction of the daughter of my people,Because the children and the infantsFaint in the streets of the city.