God’s Anger over Jerusalem
How 1the Lord has covered the Daughter of Zion 1Ch 28:2Psa 132:7Ezk 28:14-16Lam 3:43-44Luk 10:18Rev 12:7-9Ezk 30:18Isa 14:12-15
with the cloud of His anger!
He has cast the glory of Israel
from heaven to earth.
He has abandoned His footstool
in the day of His anger.
Without pity the Lord has swallowed up Lam 2:17Lam 3:43Psa 89:39-40Isa 25:12Isa 43:28Psa 21:92Co 10:4Ezk 9:10
all the dwellings of Jacob.
In His wrath He has demolished
the fortified cities of the Daughter of Judah.
He brought to the ground and defiled
her kingdom and its princes.
In fierce anger He has cut off Psa 74:11Isa 42:25Psa 75:10Psa 75:5Jer 48:25Psa 79:5Psa 89:46Deu 32:22
every horn 2of Israel
and withdrawn His right hand
at the approach of the enemy.
He has burned in Jacob like a flaming fire
that consumes everything around it.
He has bent His bow like an enemy; Jer 7:20Ezk 24:25Isa 42:25Jer 21:5Job 6:4Lam 3:12-13Jer 30:14Nam 1:6
His right hand is positioned.
Like a foe He has killed
all who were pleasing to the eye;
He has poured out His wrath like fire
on the tent of the Daughter of Zion.
The Lord is like an enemy; Lam 2:22Ki 25:9Jer 30:14Jer 52:13Lam 2:42Ch 36:16-17Ezk 2:10Jer 15:1
He has swallowed up Israel.
He has swallowed up all her palaces
and destroyed her strongholds.
He has multiplied mourning and lamentation
for the Daughter of Judah.
He has laid waste His tabernacle like a garden booth; Lam 1:4Zep 3:18Lam 4:16Ezk 12:12-13Ezk 17:18Isa 1:13Isa 1:8Isa 43:28
He has destroyed His place of meeting.
The LORD has made Zion forget
her appointed feasts and Sabbaths.
In His fierce anger
He has despised both king and priest.
The Lord has rejected His altar; Amo 2:5Psa 74:3-8Ezk 24:21Ezk 7:20-22Jer 52:13Psa 78:59-612Ch 36:19Act 6:13-14
He has abandoned His sanctuary;
He has delivered the walls of her palaces
into the hand of the enemy.
They have raised a shout in the house of the LORD
as on the day of an appointed feast.
The LORD determined to destroy 2Ki 21:13Isa 3:26Isa 34:11Jer 14:2Amo 7:7-8Jer 5:102Sa 8:2Ezk 20:22
the wall of the Daughter of Zion.
He stretched out a measuring line
and did not withdraw His hand from destroying.
He made the ramparts and walls lament;
together they waste away.
Her gates have sunk into the ground; Ezk 7:26Hos 3:42Ch 15:3Mic 3:6-7Neh 1:3Psa 74:9Amo 8:11-12Deu 28:36
He has destroyed and shattered their bars.
Her king and her princes are exiled among the nations,
the law is no more,
and even her prophets
find no vision from the LORD.
The elders of the Daughter of Zion Isa 3:26Isa 15:3Job 2:12-13Amo 8:3Ezk 7:18Isa 47:1Jos 7:6Lam 1:1
sit on the ground in silence.
They have thrown dust on their heads
and put on sackcloth.
The young women of Jerusalem
have bowed their heads to the ground.
My eyes fail from weeping; Lam 1:20Jer 4:19Job 16:13Lam 1:16Isa 22:4Lam 3:48-51Luk 23:29Psa 22:14
I am churning within.
My heart is poured out in grief
over the destruction of the daughter of my people,
because children and infants faint
in the streets of the city.
They cry out to their mothers: Ezk 30:24Isa 53:12
“Where is the grain and wine?”
as they faint like the wounded
in the streets of the city,
as their lives fade away
in the arms of their mothers.
What can I say for you? Lam 1:122Sa 5:20Jer 14:17Jer 30:12-15Jer 8:22Dan 9:12Ezk 26:3-4Isa 37:22
To what can I compare you,
O Daughter of Jerusalem?
To what can I liken you,
that I may console you,
O Virgin Daughter of Zion?
For your wound is as deep as the sea.
Who can ever heal you?
The visions of your prophets Ezk 22:28Isa 58:1Jer 5:31Ezk 22:25Mic 3:5-7Jer 2:8Jer 8:10-112Pe 2:1-3
were empty and deceptive;
they did not expose your guilt
to ward off your captivity.
The burdens they envisioned for you
were empty and misleading.
All who pass by Jer 18:16Psa 48:2Ezk 25:6Jer 19:8Psa 50:2Isa 37:22Isa 64:11Mat 27:39
clap their hands at you in scorn.
They hiss and shake their heads
at the Daughter of Jerusalem:
“Is this the city that was called
the perfection of beauty,
the joy of all the earth?”
All your enemies Psa 35:21Lam 3:46Psa 37:12Job 16:9-10Psa 56:2Jer 51:34Psa 124:3Psa 22:13
open their mouths against you.
They hiss and gnash their teeth,
saying, “We have swallowed her up.
This is the day for which we have waited.
We have lived to see it!”
The LORD has done what He planned; Ezk 5:11Psa 89:42Deu 28:15-68Deu 31:16-17Ezk 7:8-9Ezk 8:18Lam 1:5Lam 2:1-2
He has accomplished His decree,
which He ordained in days of old;
He has overthrown you without pity.
He has let the enemy gloat over you
and exalted the horn 3of your foes.
The hearts of the people Psa 119:145Jer 9:1Lam 1:16Lam 2:8Lam 3:48-49Psa 119:136Hos 7:14Hab 2:11
cry out to the Lord. 4
O wall of the Daughter of Zion,
let your tears run down like a river
day and night.
Give yourself no relief,
and your eyes no rest.
Arise, cry out in the night Psa 62:8Isa 26:9Psa 119:147-148Psa 142:2Mrk 1:351Sa 1:15Psa 141:2Lam 2:11-12
from the first watch of the night. 5
Pour out your heart like water
in the presence of the Lord.
Lift up your hands to Him
for the lives of your children
who are fainting from hunger
on the corner of every street.
Look, O LORD, and consider: Jer 19:9Lam 4:10Psa 78:64Deu 9:26Exo 32:11Lam 4:132Ki 6:28-29Deu 28:53-57
Whom have You ever treated like this?
Should women eat their offspring,
the infants they have nurtured?
Should priests and prophets be killed
in the sanctuary of the Lord?
Both young and old lie together 2Ch 36:17Zec 11:6Jer 13:14Lam 3:43Jer 18:21Lam 1:15Lam 2:17Lam 2:2
in the dust of the streets.
My young men and maidens
have fallen by the sword.
You have slain them in the day of Your anger;
You have slaughtered them without compassion.
You summoned my attackers on every side, Jer 6:25Psa 31:13Isa 24:17-18Jer 16:2-4Jer 20:3Amo 9:1-4Deu 28:18Hos 9:12-16
as for the day of an appointed feast.
In the day of the LORD’s anger
no one escaped or survived;
my enemy has destroyed
those I nurtured and reared.