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Lamentations 2:1
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How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion
with a cloud in his anger! He hath cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty
of Israel, And hath not remembered his footstool in the day of his anger. |
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Lamentations 2:2
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The Lord hath swallowed up all the habitations
of Jacob, and hath not pitied: He hath thrown down in his wrath the strongholds
of the daughter of Judah; He hath brought them down to the ground; he hath profaned
the kingdom and the princes thereof. |
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Lamentations 2:3
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He hath cut off in fierce anger all the horn
of Israel; He hath drawn back his right hand from before the enemy: And he hath
burned up Jacob like a flaming fire, which devoureth round about. |
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Lamentations 2:4
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hath bent his bow like an enemy, he hath stood with his right hand as an adversary,
And hath slain all that were pleasant to the eye: In the tent of the daughter
of Zion he hath poured out his wrath like fire. |
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Lamentations 2:5
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The Lord is become as an enemy, he hath swallowed
up Israel; He hath swallowed up all her palaces, he hath destroyed his strongholds;
And he hath multiplied in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation. |
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Lamentations 2:6
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And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle,
as if it were of a garden; he hath destroyed his place of assembly: Jehovah hath
caused solemn assembly and sabbath to be forgotten in Zion, And hath despised
in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest. |
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Lamentations 2:7
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The Lord hath cast off his altar, he hath abhorred
his sanctuary; He hath given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces:
They have made a noise in the house of Jehovah, as in the day of a solemn assembly.
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Lamentations 2:8
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Jehovah hath purposed to destroy the wall of
the daughter of Zion; He hath stretched out the line, he hath not withdrawn his
hand from destroying; And he hath made the rampart and wall to lament; they languish
together. |
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Lamentations 2:9
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Her gates are sunk into the ground; he hath
destroyed and broken her bars: Her king and her princes are among the nations
where the law is not; Yea, her prophets find no vision from Jehovah. |
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Lamentations 2:10
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The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon
the ground, they keep silence; They have cast up dust upon their heads; they have
girded themselves with sackcloth: The virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads
to the ground. |
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Lamentations 2:11
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Mine eyes do fail with tears, my heart is troubled;
My liver is poured upon the earth, because of the destruction of the daughter
of my people, Because the young children and the sucklings swoon in the streets
of the city. |
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Lamentations 2:12
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They say to their mothers, Where is grain and
wine? When they swoon as the wounded in the streets of the city, When their soul
is poured out into their mothers' bosom. |
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Lamentations 2:13
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What shall I testify unto thee? what shall I
liken to thee, O daughter of Jerusalem? What shall I compare to thee, that I may
comfort thee, O virgin daughter of Zion? For thy breach is great like the sea:
who can heal thee? |
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Lamentations 2:14
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Thy prophets have seen for thee false and foolish
visions; And they have not uncovered thine iniquity, to bring back thy captivity,
But have seen for thee false oracles and causes of banishment. |
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Lamentations 2:15
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All that pass by clap their hands at thee; They
hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city
that men called The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth? |
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Lamentations 2:16
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All thine enemies have opened their mouth wide
against thee; They hiss and gnash the teeth; they say, We have swallowed her up;
Certainly this is the day that we looked for; we have found, we have seen it.
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Lamentations 2:17
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Jehovah hath done that which he purposed; he
hath fulfilled his word that he commanded in the days of old; He hath thrown down,
and hath not pitied: And he hath caused the enemy to rejoice over thee; he hath
exalted the horn of thine adversaries. |
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Lamentations 2:18
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Their heart cried unto the Lord: O wall of the
daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night; Give thyself
no respite; let not the apple of thine eye cease. |
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Lamentations 2:19
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Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning
of the watches; Pour out thy heart like water before the face of the Lord: Lift
up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger
at the head of every street. |
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Lamentations 2:20
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See, O Jehovah, and behold to whom thou hast
done thus! Shall the women eat their fruit, the children that are dandled in the
hands? Shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?
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Lamentations 2:21
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The youth and the old man lie on the ground
in the streets; My virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword: Thou hast
slain them in the day of thine anger; thou hast slaughtered, and not pitied. |
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Lamentations 2:22
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Thou hast called, as in the day of a solemn
assembly, my terrors on every side; And there was none that escaped or remained
in the day of Jehovah's anger: Those that I have dandled and brought up hath mine
enemy consumed. |
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