1How has the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger!
2The Lord has swallowed up all the dwellings of Jacob
3He has cut off all the horn of Israel in fierce anger.
4He has bent his bow like an enemy.
5The Lord has become as an enemy.
6He has violently taken away his tabernacle,
7The Lord has cast off his altar.
8The LORD has purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion.
9Her gates have sunk into the ground.
10The elders of the daughter of Zion sit on the ground.
11My eyes fail with tears.
12They ask their mothers,
13What shall I testify to you?
14Your prophets have seen false and foolish visions for you.
15All that pass by clap their hands at you.
16All your enemies have opened their mouth wide against you.
17The LORD has done that which he planned.
18Their heart cried to the Lord.
19Arise, cry out in the night,
20“Look, LORD, and see to whom you have done thus!
21“The youth and the old man lie on the ground in the streets.
22“You have called, as in the day of a solemn assembly, my terrors on every side.