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World English Bible

Lamentations 2 (WEBP)

[1] How has the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger! He has cast the beauty of Israel down from heaven to the earth, and hasn’t remembered his footstool in the day of his anger.
[2] The Lord has swallowed up all the dwellings of Jacob without pity. He has thrown down in his wrath the strongholds of the daughter of Judah. He has brought them down to the ground. He has profaned the kingdom and its princes.
[3] He has cut off all the horn of Israel in fierce anger. He has drawn back his right hand from before the enemy. He has burned up Jacob like a flaming fire, which devours all around.
[4] He has bent his bow like an enemy. He has stood with his right hand as an adversary. He has killed all that were pleasant to the eye. In the tent of the daughter of Zion, he has poured out his wrath like fire.
[5] The Lord has become as an enemy. He has swallowed up Israel. He has swallowed up all her palaces. He has destroyed his strongholds. He has multiplied mourning and lamentation in the daughter of Judah.
[6] He has violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were a garden. He has destroyed his place of assembly. Yahweh has caused solemn assembly and Sabbath to be forgotten in Zion. In the indignation of his anger, he has despised the king and the priest.
[7] The Lord has cast off his altar. He has abhorred his sanctuary. He has given the walls of her palaces into the hand of the enemy. They have made a noise in Yahweh’s house, as in the day of a solemn assembly.
[8] Yahweh has purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion. He has stretched out the line. He has not withdrawn his hand from destroying; He has made the rampart and wall lament. They languish together.
[9] Her gates have sunk into the ground. He has destroyed and broken her bars. Her king and her princes are among the nations where the law is not. Yes, her prophets find no vision from Yahweh.
[10] The elders of the daughter of Zion sit on the ground. They keep silence. They have cast up dust on their heads. They have clothed themselves with sackcloth. The virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.
[11] My eyes fail with tears. My heart is troubled. My bile is poured on the earth, because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, because the young children and the infants swoon in the streets of the city.
[12] They ask 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.
[13] What shall I testify to you? What shall I liken to you, daughter of Jerusalem? What shall I compare to you, that I may comfort you, virgin daughter of Zion? For your breach is as big as the sea. Who can heal you?
[14] Your prophets have seen false and foolish visions for you. They have not uncovered your iniquity, to reverse your captivity, but have seen for you false revelations and causes of banishment.
[15] All that pass by clap their hands at you. 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’?”
[16] All your enemies have opened their mouth wide against you. They hiss and gnash their teeth. They say, “We have swallowed her up. Certainly this is the day that we looked for. We have found it. We have seen it.”
[17] Yahweh has done that which he planned. He has fulfilled his word that he commanded in the days of old. He has thrown down, and has not pitied. He has caused the enemy to rejoice over you. He has exalted the horn of your adversaries.
[18] Their heart cried to the Lord. O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night. Give yourself no relief. Don’t let your eyes rest.
[19] Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches! Pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord. Lift up your hands toward him for the life of your young children, who faint for hunger at the head of every street.
[20] “Look, Yahweh, and see to whom you have done thus! Should the women eat their offspring, the children that they held and bounced on their knees? Should the priest and the prophet be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?
[21] “The youth and the old man lie on the ground in the streets. My virgins and my young men have fallen by the sword. You have killed them in the day of your anger. You have slaughtered, and not pitied.
[22] “You have called, as in the day of a solemn assembly, my terrors on every side. There was no one that escaped or remained in the day of Yahweh’s anger. My enemy has consumed those whom I have cared for and brought up.

Scripture quotations are taken from The World English Bible™ of eBible.org, 2020 stable text edition. It is in the public domain.

King James w/Strong’s #s

Lamentations 2 (KJVS)

[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. ()

Lamentations 2:2 Heb. made to couch
Lamentations 2:4 Heb. all the desirable of the eye
Lamentations 2:6 Or, hedge
Lamentations 2:7 Heb. shut up
Lamentations 2:8 Heb. swallowing up
Lamentations 2:11 Or, faint
Lamentations 2:15 Heb. by the way
Lamentations 2:20 Or, swadled with their hands

Scripture quotations from The Authorized King James Version of the Holy Bible, using the standardized text of 1769. It is in the public domain.

Greek Bible (LXX/BYZ)

Lamentations 2 (BYZ)

[1] πως εγνοφωσεν εν οργη αυτου κυριος την θυγατερα σιων κατερριψεν εξ ουρανου εις γην δοξασμα ισραηλ και ουκ εμνησθη υποποδιου ποδων αυτου εν ημερα οργης αυτου
[2] κατεποντισεν κυριος ου φεισαμενος παντα τα ωραια ιακωβ καθειλεν εν θυμω αυτου τα οχυρωματα της θυγατρος ιουδα εκολλησεν εις την γην εβεβηλωσεν βασιλεα αυτης και αρχοντας αυτης
[3] συνεκλασεν εν οργη θυμου αυτου παν κερας ισραηλ απεστρεψεν οπισω δεξιαν αυτου απο προσωπου εχθρου και ανηψεν εν ιακωβ ως πυρ φλογα και κατεφαγεν παντα τα κυκλω
[4] ενετεινεν τοξον αυτου ως εχθρος εστερεωσεν δεξιαν αυτου ως υπεναντιος και απεκτεινεν παντα τα επιθυμηματα οφθαλμων μου εν σκηνη θυγατρος σιων εξεχεεν ως πυρ τον θυμον αυτου
[5] εγενηθη κυριος ως εχθρος κατεποντισεν ισραηλ κατεποντισεν πασας τας βαρεις αυτης διεφθειρεν τα οχυρωματα αυτου και επληθυνεν τη θυγατρι ιουδα ταπεινουμενην και τεταπεινωμενην
[6] και διεπετασεν ως αμπελον το σκηνωμα αυτου διεφθειρεν εορτην αυτου επελαθετο κυριος ο εποιησεν εν σιων εορτης και σαββατου και παρωξυνεν εμβριμηματι οργης αυτου βασιλεα και ιερεα και αρχοντα
[7] απωσατο κυριος θυσιαστηριον αυτου απετιναξεν αγιασμα αυτου συνετριψεν εν χειρι εχθρου τειχος βαρεων αυτης φωνην εδωκαν εν οικω κυριου ως εν ημερα εορτης
[8] και επεστρεψεν κυριος του διαφθειραι τειχος θυγατρος σιων εξετεινεν μετρον ουκ απεστρεψεν χειρα αυτου απο καταπατηματος και επενθησεν το προτειχισμα και τειχος ομοθυμαδον ησθενησεν
[9] ενεπαγησαν εις γην πυλαι αυτης απωλεσεν και συνετριψεν μοχλους αυτης βασιλεα αυτης και αρχοντας αυτης εν τοις εθνεσιν ουκ εστιν νομος και γε προφηται αυτης ουκ ειδον ορασιν παρα κυριου
[10] εκαθισαν εις την γην εσιωπησαν πρεσβυτεροι θυγατρος σιων ανεβιβασαν χουν επι την κεφαλην αυτων περιεζωσαντο σακκους κατηγαγον εις γην αρχηγους παρθενους εν ιερουσαλημ
[11] εξελιπον εν δακρυσιν οι οφθαλμοι μου εταραχθη η καρδια μου εξεχυθη εις γην η δοξα μου επι το συντριμμα της θυγατρος του λαου μου εν τω εκλιπειν νηπιον και θηλαζοντα εν πλατειαις πολεως
[12] ταις μητρασιν αυτων ειπαν που σιτος και οινος εν τω εκλυεσθαι αυτους ως τραυματιας εν πλατειαις πολεως εν τω εκχεισθαι ψυχας αυτων εις κολπον μητερων αυτων
[13] τι μαρτυρησω σοι η τι ομοιωσω σοι θυγατερ ιερουσαλημ τις σωσει σε και παρακαλεσει σε παρθενος θυγατερ σιων οτι εμεγαλυνθη ποτηριον συντριβης σου τις ιασεται σε
[14] προφηται σου ειδοσαν σοι ματαια και αφροσυνην και ουκ απεκαλυψαν επι την αδικιαν σου του επιστρεψαι αιχμαλωσιαν σου και ειδοσαν σοι λημματα ματαια και εξωσματα
[15] εκροτησαν επι σε χειρας παντες οι παραπορευομενοι οδον εσυρισαν και εκινησαν την κεφαλην αυτων επι την θυγατερα ιερουσαλημ η αυτη η πολις ην ερουσιν στεφανος δοξης ευφροσυνη πασης της γης
[16] διηνοιξαν επι σε στομα αυτων παντες οι εχθροι σου εσυρισαν και εβρυξαν οδοντας ειπαν κατεπιομεν αυτην πλην αυτη η ημερα ην προσεδοκωμεν ευρομεν αυτην ειδομεν
[17] εποιησεν κυριος α ενεθυμηθη συνετελεσεν ρηματα αυτου α ενετειλατο εξ ημερων αρχαιων καθειλεν και ουκ εφεισατο και ηυφρανεν επι σε εχθρον υψωσεν κερας θλιβοντος σε
[18] εβοησεν καρδια αυτων προς κυριον τειχη σιων καταγαγετε ως χειμαρρους δακρυα ημερας και νυκτος μη δως εκνηψιν σεαυτη μη σιωπησαιτο θυγατερ ο οφθαλμος σου
[19] αναστα αγαλλιασαι εν νυκτι εις αρχας φυλακης σου εκχεον ως υδωρ καρδιαν σου απεναντι προσωπου κυριου αρον προς αυτον χειρας σου περι ψυχης νηπιων σου των εκλυομενων λιμω επ αρχης πασων εξοδων
[20] ιδε κυριε και επιβλεψον τινι επεφυλλισας ουτως ει φαγονται γυναικες καρπον κοιλιας αυτων επιφυλλιδα εποιησεν μαγειρος φονευθησονται νηπια θηλαζοντα μαστους αποκτενεις εν αγιασματι κυριου ιερεα και προφητην
[21] εκοιμηθησαν εις την εξοδον παιδαριον και πρεσβυτης παρθενοι μου και νεανισκοι μου επορευθησαν εν αιχμαλωσια εν ρομφαια και εν λιμω απεκτεινας εν ημερα οργης σου εμαγειρευσας ουκ εφεισω
[22] εκαλεσεν ημεραν εορτης παροικιας μου κυκλοθεν και ουκ εγενοντο εν ημερα οργης κυριου ανασωζομενος και καταλελειμμενος ως επεκρατησα και επληθυνα εχθρους μου παντας

The Greek New Testament According to the Byzantine Text (Guardian Press, Inc., Robinson-Pierpont Byzantine Textform, 2026). Dedicated to the public domain by Guardian Press, Inc. and J. Jeffrey Dodson.