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chapter 2
1
Aleph.
How hath the Lord covered with obscurity the daughter of Sion in his wrath! how
hath he cast down from heaven to the earth the glorious one of Israel, and hath
not remembered his footstool in the day of his anger!
2 Beth. The Lord hath cast down headlong, and hath not
spared, all that was beautiful in Jacob: he hath destroyed in his wrath the
strong holds of the virgin of Juda, and brought them down to the ground: he
hath made the kingdom unclean, and the princes thereof.
3 Ghimel. He hath broken in his fierce anger all the
horn of Israel: he hath drawn back his right hand from before the enemy: and he
hath kindled in Jacob as it were a flaming fire devouring round about.
4 Daleth. He hath bent his
bow as an enemy, he hath fixed his right hand as an adversary: and he hath
killed all that was fair to behold in the tabernacle of the daughter of Sion,
he hath poured out his indignation like fire.
5 He. The Lord is become as an enemy: he hath cast down
Israel headlong, he hath overthrown all the walls thereof: he hath destroyed
his strong holds, and hath multiplied in the daughter of Juda the afflicted,
both men and women.
6 Vau. And he hath destroyed his tent as a garden, he
hath thrown down his tabernacle: the Lord hath caused feasts and sabbaths to be
forgotten in Sion: and hath delivered up king and priest to reproach, and to
the indignation of his wrath.
7 Zain. The Lord hath cast off his altar, he hath
cursed his sanctuary: he hath delivered the walls of the towers thereof into
the hand of the enemy: they have made a noise in the house of the Lord, as in
the day of a solemn feast.
8 Heth. The Lord hath purposed to destroy the wall of
the daughter of Sion: he hath stretched out his line, and hath not withdrawn
his hand from destroying: and the bulwark hath mourned, and the wall hath been
destroyed together.
9 Teth. Her gates are sunk into the ground: he hath
destroyed, and broken her bars: her king and her princes are among the
Gentiles: the law is no more, and her prophets have found no vision from the
Lord.
10 Jod. The ancients of the daughter of Sion sit upon
the ground, they have held their peace: they have sprinkled their heads with
dust, they are girded with haircloth, the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their
heads to the ground.
11 Caph. My eyes have failed with weeping, my bowels
are troubled: my liver is poured out upon the earth, for the destruction of the
daughter of my people, when the children, and the sucklings, fainted away in
the streets of the city.
12 Lamed. They said to their mothers: Where is corn and
wine? when they fainted away as the wounded in the streets of the city: when
they breathed out their souls in the bosoms of their mothers.
13 Mem. To what shall I compare thee? or to what shall
I liken thee, O daughter of Jerusalem? to what shall I equal thee, that I may
comfort thee, O virgin daughter of Sion? for great as the sea is thy
destruction: who shall heal thee?
14 Nun. Thy prophets have seen false and foolish things
for thee: and they have not laid open thy iniquity, to excite thee to penance:
but they have seen for thee false revelations and banishments.
15 Samech. All they that passed by the way have clapped
their hands at thee: they have hissed, and wagged their heads at the daughter
of Jerusalem, saying: Is this the city of perfect beauty, the joy of all the
earth?
16 Phe. All thy enemies have opened their mouth against
thee: they have hissed, and gnashed with the teeth, and have said: We will
swallow her up: lo, this is the day which we looked for: we have found it, we
have seen it.
17 Ain. The Lord hath done that which he purposed, he
hath fulfilled his word, which he commanded in the days of old: he hath
destroyed, and hath not spared, and he hath caused the enemy to rejoice over
thee, and hath set up the horn of thy adversaries.
18 Sade. Their heart cried to the Lord upon the walls
of the daughter of Sion: Let tears run down like a torrent day and night: give
thyself no rest, and let not the apple of thy eye cease.
19 Coph. Arise, give praise in the night, in the
beginning of the watches: pour out thy heart like water before the face of the
Lord: lift up thy hands to him for the life of thy little children, that have
fainted for hunger at the top of all the streets.
20 Res. Behold, O Lord, and consider whom thou hast
thus dealt with: shall women then eat their own fruit, their children of a span
long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord ?
21 Sin. The child and the old man lie without on the
ground: my virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword: thou hast slain
them in the day of thy wrath: thou hast killed, and shewn them no pity.
22 Thau. Thou hast called as to a festival, those that
should terrify me round about, and there was none in the day of the wrath of
the Lord that escaped and was left: those that I brought up, and nourished, my
enemy hath consumed them.
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