1 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!
2 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.
3 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.
4 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.
5 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.
6 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.
7 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.
8 The LORD hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion: he hath stretched out a line, he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying: therefore he made the rampart and the wall to lament; they languished together.
9 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.
10 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.
11 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.
12 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.
13 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?
14 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.
15 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?
16 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].
17 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.
18 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.
19 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.
20 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?
21 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.
22 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.
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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