Sep 29, 2018
5 The Lord is like
an enemy;
he has swallowed up Israel.
He has swallowed up all her
palaces
and destroyed her strongholds.
He has multiplied mourning and
lamentation
for Daughter Judah.
6 He has laid waste
his dwelling like a garden;
he has destroyed his place of
meeting.
The Lord has made Zion forget
her appointed festivals and her
Sabbaths;
in his fierce anger he has
spurned
both king and priest.
7 The Lord has
rejected his altar
and abandoned his sanctuary.
He has given the walls of her
palaces
into the hands of the enemy;
they have raised a shout in the house of
the Lord
as on the day of an appointed
festival.
8 The Lord determined to tear down
the wall around Daughter Zion.
He stretched out a measuring
line
and did not withhold his hand from
destroying.
He made ramparts and walls
lament;
together they wasted away.
9 Her
gates have sunk into the ground;
their bars he has broken and
destroyed.
Her king and her princes are
exiled among the nations,
the law is no more,
and her prophets no longer
find
visions from the Lord.