Lamentations 2:4-8

Lamentations 2:4-8

[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The LORD  hath purposed  to destroy  the wall  of the daughter  of Zion:  he hath stretched out  a line,  he hath not withdrawn  his hand  from destroying:  therefore he made the rampart  and the wall  to lament;  they languished  together.