The Anger of Yahweh
Aleph
1 How the Lord has covered the daughter of Zion
With a cloud in His anger!
He has cast from heaven to earth
The beauty of Israel,
And has not remembered the footstool of His feet
In the day of His anger.
Beth
2 The Lord has swallowed up; He has not spared
All the habitations of Jacob.
In His wrath He has pulled down
The strongholds of the daughter of Judah;
He has brought them down to the ground;
He has profaned the kingdom and its princes.
Gimel
3 In hot anger He has cut in pieces
All the strength of Israel;
He has turned back His right hand
From before the enemy.
And He has burned in Jacob like a flaming fire
Devouring round about.
Daleth
4 He has bent His bow like an enemy;
He has set His right hand like an adversary
And killed all that were desirable to the eye;
In the tent of the daughter of Zion
He has poured out His wrath like fire.
He
5 The Lord has become like an enemy.
He has swallowed up Israel;
He has swallowed up all its palaces;
He has brought its strongholds to ruin
And multiplied in the daughter of Judah
Mourning and moaning.
Vav
6 And He has violently treated His tabernacle like a garden booth;
He has brought His appointed meeting place to ruin.
Yahweh has caused to be forgotten
The appointed time and sabbath in Zion,
And He has spurned king and priest
In the indignation of His anger.
Zayin
7 The Lord has rejected His altar;
He has abandoned His sanctuary;
He has delivered into the hand of the enemy
The walls of her palaces.
They have made a noise in the house of Yahweh
As in the day of an appointed time.
Heth
8 Yahweh determined to bring to ruin
The wall of the daughter of Zion.
He has stretched out a line;
He has not turned His hand back from swallowing up,
And He has caused rampart and wall to mourn;
They have languished together.
Teth
9 Her gates have sunk into the ground;
He has destroyed and broken her bars.
Her king and her princes are among the nations;
The law is no more.
Also, her prophets find
No vision from Yahweh.
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