1How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger!
2The Lord hath swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and hath not pitied:
3He hath cut off in fierce anger all the horn of Israel;
4He hath bent his bow like an enemy, he hath stood with his right hand as an adversary,
5The Lord is become as an enemy, he hath swallowed up Israel;
6And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden; he hath destroyed his place of assembly:
7The Lord hath cast off his altar, he hath abhorred his sanctuary;
8Jehovah hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion;
9Her gates are sunk into the ground; he hath destroyed and broken her bars:
10The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, they keep silence;
11Mine eyes do fail with tears, my heart is troubled;
12They say to their mothers, Where is grain and wine?
13What shall I testify unto thee? what shall I liken to thee, O daughter of Jerusalem?
14Thy prophets have seen for thee false and foolish visions;
15All that pass by clap their hands at thee;
16All thine enemies have opened their mouth wide against thee;
17Jehovah hath done that which he purposed; he hath fulfilled his word that he commanded in the days of old;
18Their heart cried unto the Lord:
19Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches;
20See, O Jehovah, and behold to whom thou hast done thus!
21The youth and the old man lie on the ground in the streets;
22Thou hast called, as in the day of a solemn assembly, my terrors on every side;