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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, and cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty
of Israel, and remembered not 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 strong holds
of the daughter of Judah; he hath brought them down to the ground: he hath polluted
the kingdom and the princes thereof. |
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Lamentations 2:3
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He hath cut off in his fierce anger all the
horn of Israel: he hath drawn back his right hand from before the enemy, and he
burned against Jacob like a flaming fire, which devoureth round about. |
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Lamentations 2:4
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He hath bent his bow like an enemy: he stood
with his right hand as an adversary, and slew all that were pleasant to the eye
in the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion: he poured out his fury like fire. |
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Lamentations 2:5
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The Lord was as an enemy: he hath swallowed
up Israel, he hath swallowed up all her palaces: he hath destroyed his strong
holds, and hath increased 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 places of the assembly: the LORD
hath caused the solemn feasts and sabbaths 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 the LORD, as in the day of a solemn feast. |
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Lamentations 2:8
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The LORD hath purposed to destroy the wall of
the daughter of Zion: he hath stretched out a line, he hath not withdrawn his
hand from destroying: therefore he made the rampart and the wall to lament; they
languished 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 Gentiles:
the law is no more; her prophets also find no vision from the LORD. |
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Lamentations 2:10
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The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon
the ground, and 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 bowels are
troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter
of my people; because the 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 corn and
wine? when they swooned as the wounded in the streets of the city, when their
soul was poured out into their mothers' bosom. |
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Lamentations 2:13
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What thing shall I take to witness for thee?
what thing shall I liken to thee, O daughter of Jerusalem? what shall I equal
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 vain and foolish things
for thee: and they have not discovered thine iniquity, to turn away thy captivity;
but have seen for thee false burdens 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 call 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 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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The LORD hath done that which he had devised;
he hath fulfilled his word that he had commanded in the days of old: he hath thrown
down, and hath not pitied: and he hath caused thine enemy to rejoice over thee,
he hath set up 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 rest; 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: in the beginning
of the watches pour out thine 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
in the top of every street. |
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Lamentations 2:20
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Behold, O LORD, and consider to whom thou hast
done this. Shall the women eat their fruit, and children of a span long? 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 young and the old 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 killed, and not pitied. |
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Lamentations 2:22
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Thou hast called as in a solemn day my terrors
round about, so that in the day of the LORD's anger none escaped nor remained:
those that I have swaddled and brought up hath mine enemy consumed. |
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