Online Bible

God’s Anger over Israel

How the Lord has ¹^acovered the daughter of ZionWith a cloud in His anger!He has ^bhurledThe ^cglory of Israel from heaven to earth,And has not remembered His ^dfootstoolIn the day of His anger.2 The Lord has ¹^adestroyed; He has not sparedAll the settlements of Jacob.In His wrath He has ^boverthrownThe strongholds of the daughter of Judah,He has ^churled them down to the ground;He has ^dprofaned the kingdom and its leaders.3 In fierce anger He has cut off¹All the ^astrength of Israel;He has ^bpulled back His right handFrom the enemy.And He has ^cburned in Jacob like a flaming fireConsuming on all sides.4 He has bent His ^abow like an enemy;His right hand is positioned like an adversary,And He has killed everything that was ^bpleasant to the eye.In the tent of the daughter of ZionHe has ^cpoured out His wrath like fire.5 The Lord has become like an ^aenemy.He has ^bengulfed Israel;He has engulfed all its ^cpalaces,He has destroyed its strongholdsAnd ^dcaused great mourning and grieving in the daughter of Judah.6 And He has treated His ¹tabernacle violently, like a despised garden;He has ^adestroyed His appointed ²meeting place.The LORD has ^bcausedThe appointed feast and Sabbath in Zion to be forgotten,And He has ^cdespised king and priestIn the indignation of His anger.7 The Lord has ^arejected His altar,He has ¹repudiated His sanctuary;He ^bhas handed overThe walls of her palaces to the enemy.They have made a ^cnoise in the house of the LORDAs on the day of an appointed feast.8 The LORD determined to destroyThe wall of the daughter of Zion.He has ^astretched out a line,He has not restrained His hand from ¹destroying,And He has ^bcaused rampart and wall to mourn;They have languished together.9 Her ^agates have sunk into the ground,He has destroyed and broken her bars.Her king and her leaders are among the nations;The ^bLaw is gone.Her prophets, too, find^cNo vision from the LORD.10 The elders of the daughter of Zion^aSit on the ground and ¹^bare silent.They have thrown ^cdust on their heads;They have put on ^dsackcloth.The ^evirgins of JerusalemHave bowed their heads to the ground.11 My ^aeyes fail because of tears,My ¹^bspirit is greatly troubled;My ²^cheart is poured out on the earth^dBecause of the ³destruction of the daughter of my people,When ^elittle ones and infants languishIn the streets of the city.12 They say to their mothers,“^aWhere is grain and wine?”As they faint like a wounded personIn the streets of the city,As their ^blives are poured out¹In their mothers’ arms.13 How shall I admonish you?What ^ashall I compare to you,Daughter of Jerusalem?What shall I liken to you as I comfort you,^bVirgin daughter of Zion?For your collapse is as vast as the sea;Who can ^cheal you?14 Your ^aprophets have seen for youWorthless and deceptive visions;And they have not ^bexposed your wrongdoingSo as to restore you from captivity,But they have ^cseen for you worthless and misleading pronouncements.15 All who pass along the way^aClap their hands in ridicule at you;They ^b¹hiss and shake their headsAt the daughter of Jerusalem:“Is this the city of which they said,‘^cPerfect in beauty,^dA joy to all the earth’?”16 All ^ayour enemiesHave opened their mouths wide against you;They ¹hiss and ^bgnash their teeth.They say, “We have ^cengulfed her!This certainly is the ^dday which we awaited;We have reached it, we have seen it!”17 The LORD has ^adone what He determined;He has accomplished His wordWhich He commanded from days of old.He has torn down ^bwithout sparing,And He has helped the enemy to ^crejoice over you;He has ^dexalted the ¹might of your adversaries.18 Their ^aheart cried out to the Lord:“You ^bwall of the daughter of Zion,Let your ^ctears stream down like a river day and night;Give yourself no relief,Let ¹your eyes have no rest.19 “Arise, whimper in the ^anightAt the beginning of the night watches;^bPour out your heart like waterBefore the presence of the Lord;Raise your hands to HimFor the ^clife of your little onesWho ^dlanguish because of hungerAt the head of every street.20 “See, LORD, and look!With ^awhom have You dealt this way?Should women really ^beat their ¹children,The little ones who were ²born healthy?Should ^cpriest and prophet really be killedIn the sanctuary of the Lord?21 “On the ground in the streetsLie ^ayoung and old;My ^bvirgins and my young menHave fallen by the sword.You have put them to death on the day of Your anger,You have slaughtered, ^cwithout sparing.22 “You called as on the day of an appointed feastMy ^aterrors on every side;And there was ^bno one who survived or escapedOn the day of the LORD’S anger.As for those ^cwhom I brought forth healthy and whom I raised,My enemy annihilated them.”