1 ALEPH. O how the Lord has covered the daughter of Zion with gloom in his fury! O how he has thrown down from heaven to earth the famous one of Israel, and he has not remembered his footstool in the day of his fury.
2 BETH. The Lord has cast down, and he has not been lenient, with all the beauties of Jacob. In his fury, he has destroyed the fortifications of the virgin of Judah, and he has thrown them down to the ground. He has polluted the kingdom and its leaders.
3 GHIMEL. In the anger of his fury, he has broken the entire horn of Israel. He has drawn back his right hand before the face of the enemy. And he has kindled within Jacob a flaming fire, devouring all around.
4 DALETH. He has bent his bow like an enemy. He has fixed his right hand like an adversary. And he has cut down all that was beautiful to behold in the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion. He has poured out his indignation like fire.
5 HE. The Lord has become like an enemy. He has thrown down Israel. He has thrown down all of his defenses. He has torn apart his fortifications. And he has filled the daughter of Judah with humbled men and humbled women.
6 VAU. And he has torn apart her tent like a garden. He has demolished her tabernacle. In Zion, the Lord has delivered feast and Sabbath into oblivion, and king and priest into disgrace, and into the indignation of his fury.
7 ZAIN. The Lord has pushed away his own altar. He has cursed his own sanctuary. He has delivered the walls of its towers into the hand of the enemy. They have made a noise in the house of the Lord, as if on the day of a solemnity.
8 HETH. The Lord has decided to tear down the wall of the daughter of Zion. He has stretched out his measuring line, and he has not turn away his hand from perdition. And the rampart has mourned, and with the wall it has been torn apart.
9 TETH. Her gates have been buried in the ground. He has ruined and crushed its bars. Her king and her princes are with the Gentiles. There is no law, and her prophets have found no vision from the Lord.
10 JOD. The elders of the daughter of Zion have become idle; they sit on the ground. They have sprinkled their heads with ashes. They have been wrapped with haircloth. The virgins of Jerusalem have cast their heads down to the ground.
11 CAPH. My eyes have exhausted their tears. My internal organs have become disturbed. My liver has been poured out on the earth, over the grief of the daughter of my people, when the little ones and the infants passed away in the streets of the town.
12 LAMED. They said to their mothers, “Where is the wheat and the wine?” when they fell like the wounded in the streets of the city, when they breathed out their lives into the bosoms of their mothers.
13 MEM. To what shall I compare you, or to what shall I liken you, O daughter of Jerusalem? To what shall I equate you, so as to console you, O virgin daughter of Zion? For your destruction is as great as the sea. Who will cure you?
14 NUN. Your prophets have seen false and foolish things for you. And they have not laid open your iniquity, so as to provoke you to repentance. Yet they have seen for you false revelations and banishments.
15 SAMECH. All those who passed by the way have clapped their hands over you. They have hissed and shook their heads over the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, “Is this the city of perfect dignity, the joy of all the earth?”
16 PHE. All your enemies have opened their mouth over you. They have hissed and gnashed their teeth, and they said: “We will devour her. Yes, this is the day we waited for. We have found it, we have seen it.”
17 AIN. The Lord has done what he decided to do. He has fulfilled his word, which he instructed since the days of antiquity. He has destroyed, and he has not been lenient, and he has caused the enemy to rejoice over you, and he has exalted the horn of your adversaries.
18 SADE. Their heart cried out to the Lord from the walls of the daughter of Zion. Let tears run down like a torrent throughout the day and the night. Do not give rest to yourself, and do not allow the pupil of your eye to cease.
19 COPH. Rise up. Give praise in the night, in the first of the watches. Pour out your heart like water before the sight of the Lord. Lift up your hands to him on behalf of the souls of your little ones, who have passed away from famine at the head of all the crossroads.
20 RES. O Lord, see and consider those whom you have made into a such vintage. So then, shall women eat their own fruit, little ones measured by the palm of the hand? Shall priest and prophet be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?
21 SIN. The boy and the old man lie down on the ground outside. My virgins and my youths have fallen by the sword. You have slain them in the day of your fury. You have struck down, and you have not shown pity.
22 THAU. You have called, as if to a day of solemnity, those who would terrify me all around. And there was no one, in the day of the fury of the Lord, who escaped or was left behind. Those whom I educated and nourished, my enemy has consumed.
Versículos relacionados com Lamentations, 2:
Lamentations 2 describes the destruction of Jerusalem by the Babylonian army and the affliction of the people who was homeless and food. The chapter portrays the city of Jerusalem as a desolate widow who cries and calls for help, but no one helps her. Below are five verses related to the topics covered in lamentations 2:
Psalm 137:5-6: "If I forget you, O Jerusalem, forget my right of your dexterity. If you don't remember you, you cling to the taste to you; if you do not prefer Jerusalem to My greatest joy. " This psalm portrays the pain and longing that the exiled Jews felt for their hometown, Jerusalem, after its destruction by the Babylonians. This longing is a theme present in lamentations 2.
Isaiah 3:26: "And their doors will moan and mourn; she, desolate, will sit on the floor." As in lamentations 2, Isaiah 3 describes a city (Jerusalem) desolate and hopeless. Isaiah also uses the image of moaning and mourning doors, which is a figure of language present in lamentations 2.
Ezekiel 27:30-31: "And they will mourn over you with bitterness of soul, and they will make up bitter weeping, saying, Who has been like a tire, destroyed in the middle of the sea? When your traders were princes, and your merchants The most illustrious of Earth ... "This verse describes the lament of the inhabitants of shooting, which was also destroyed. Weeping and lamentation are common themes in lamentations 2.
Joel 2:12-13: "Still, right now the Lord says," Convert you to me of all your heart; and that with fasts, and with crying, and teep. And tear your heart, not them, not them Your garments, and convert to the Lord your God, for He is merciful and compassionate, late in angry and greatly benefited, and repents from evil. " Joel urges the people to repent from their sins and turn to God, who is merciful. This message is similar to that present in lamentations 2, where the people are described as deserving of divine punishment.
Zechariah 1:15: "And I am very outraged against the nations safely; because I was a little outraged, but they aggravated evil." In this verse, God is outraged by the nations who feel safe while Jerusalem was destroyed. This divine anger is also present in lamentations 2, where the people suffer the punishment of God for their sins.
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