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Lamentations 2

The poet describes Jerusalem’s fall as the day of the LORD’s anger. Walls, gates, temple worship, kings, priests, prophets, and ordinary families all suffer, while the chapter calls Zion to pour out her heart before the LORD for the lives of her children.

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The poet describes Jerusalem’s fall as the day of the LORD’s anger. Walls, gates, temple worship, kings, priests, prophets, and ordinary families all suffer, while the chapter calls Zion to pour out her heart before the LORD for the lives of her children.

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Verses 1–9The Lord has cast down Zion, destroyed her defenses, and rejected altar and sanctuaryVerses 10–17Elders and children mourn while enemies mock the ruin of JerusalemVerses 18–22Zion is urged to cry to the Lord over the terrible suffering of her people
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1How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with…2The Lord hath swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob,…3He hath cut off in his fierce anger all the…4He hath bent his bow like an enemy: he stood…5The Lord was as an enemy: he hath swallowed up…6And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as if…7The Lord hath cast off his altar, he hath abhorred…8The LORD hath purposed to destroy the wall of the…9Her gates are sunk into the ground; he hath destroyed…10The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the…11Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled,…12They say to their mothers, Where is corn and wine?…13What thing shall I take to witness for thee? what…14Thy prophets have seen vain and foolish things for thee:…15All that pass by clap their hands at thee; they…16All thine enemies have opened their mouth against thee: they…17The LORD hath done that which he had devised; he…18Their heart cried unto the Lord, O wall of the…19Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of…20Behold, O LORD, and consider to whom thou hast done…21The young and the old lie on the ground in…22Thou hast called as in a solemn day my terrors…