Lamentations 2

1 How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger! he hath cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel, and hath not remembered his footstool in the day of his anger.

how? to becloud in/on/with face: anger his Lord [obj] daughter Zion to throw from heaven land: country/planet beauty Israel and not to remember footstool foot his in/on/with day face: anger his

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 profaned the kingdom and the princes thereof.

to swallow up Lord (and not *QK) to spare [obj] all habitation Jacob to overthrow in/on/with fury his fortification daughter Judah to touch to/for land: soil to profane/begin: profane kingdom and ruler her

3 He hath cut off in fierce anger all the horn of Israel; he hath drawn back his right hand from before the enemy: and he hath burned up Jacob like a flaming fire, which devoureth round about.

to cut down/off in/on/with burning face: anger all horn Israel to return: return back right his from face: before enemy and to burn: burn in/on/with Jacob like/as fire flame to eat around

4 He hath bent his bow like an enemy, he hath stood with his right hand as an adversary, and hath slain all that were pleasant to the eye: in the tent of the daughter of Zion he hath poured out his fury like fire.

to tread bow his like/as enemy to stand right his like/as enemy and to kill all desire eye in/on/with tent daughter Zion to pour: pour like/as fire rage his

5 The Lord is become as an enemy, he hath swallowed up Israel; he hath swallowed up all her palaces, he hath destroyed his strong holds: and he hath multiplied in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.

to be Lord like/as enemy to swallow up Israel to swallow up all citadel: palace her to ruin fortification his and to multiply in/on/with daughter Judah mourning and lamentation

6 And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden; he hath destroyed his place of assembly: the LORD hath caused solemn assembly and sabbath to be forgotten in Zion, and hath despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest.

and to injure like/as garden booth his to ruin meeting his to forget LORD in/on/with Zion meeting: festival and Sabbath and to spurn in/on/with indignation face: anger his king and 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 assembly.

to reject Lord altar his to disown sanctuary his to shut in/on/with hand: power enemy wall citadel: palace her voice: sound to give: cry out in/on/with house: temple LORD like/as day meeting: festival

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

to devise: devise LORD to/for to ruin wall daughter Zion to stretch line not to return: turn back hand his from to swallow up and to mourn rampart and wall together to weaken

9 Her gates are sunk into the ground; he hath destroyed and broken her bars: her king and her princes are among the nations where the law is not; yea, her prophets find no vision from the LORD.

to sink in/on/with land: soil gate her to perish and to break bar her king her and ruler her in/on/with nation nothing instruction also prophet her not to find vision from LORD

10 The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, they 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.

to dwell to/for land: soil to silence: silent old: elder daughter Zion to ascend: establish dust upon head their to gird sackcloth to go down to/for land: soil head their virgin Jerusalem

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 young children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.

to end: expend in/on/with tears eye my to aggitate belly my to pour: pour to/for land: soil liver my upon breaking daughter people my in/on/with to enfeeble infant and to suckle in/on/with street/plaza town

12 They say to their mothers, Where is corn and wine? when they swoon as the wounded in the streets of the city, when their soul is poured out into their mothers’ bosom.

to/for mother their to say where? grain and wine in/on/with to enfeeble they like/as slain: wounded in/on/with street/plaza city in/on/with to pour: pour soul: life their to(wards) bosom: embrace mother their

13 What shall I testify unto thee? what 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?

what? to testify you what? to resemble to/for you [the] daughter Jerusalem what? be like to/for you and to be sorry: comfort you virgin daughter Zion for great: large like/as sea breaking your who? to heal to/for you

14 Thy prophets have seen visions for thee of vanity and foolishness; and they have not discovered thine iniquity, to bring again thy captivity: but have seen for thee burdens of vanity and causes of banishment.

prophet your to see to/for you vanity: false and insipid and not to reveal: uncover upon iniquity: crime your to/for to return: rescue (captivity your *Qk) and to see to/for you oracle vanity: false and enticement

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 called The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?

to slap upon you palm all to pass way: road to whistle and to shake head their upon daughter Jerusalem this [the] city which/that to say entire beauty rejoicing to/for all [the] land: country/planet

16 All thine enemies have opened their mouth wide 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.

to open upon you lip their all enemy your to whistle and to grind tooth to say to swallow up surely this [the] day which/that to await him to find to see: see

17 The LORD hath done that which he devised; he hath fulfilled his word that he commanded in the days of old; he hath thrown down, and hath not pitied: and he hath caused the enemy to rejoice over thee, he hath exalted the horn of thine adversaries.

to make: do LORD which to plan to cut off: to gain threat his which to command from day front: old to overthrow and not to spare and to rejoice upon you enemy to exalt horn enemy your

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 respite; let not the apple of thine eye cease.

to cry heart their to(wards) Lord wall daughter Zion to go down like/as torrent: river tears by day and night not to give: give cessation to/for you not to silence: stationary daughter eye your

19 Arise, cry out in the night, at 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 at the top of every street.

to arise: rise to sing (in/on/with night *Qk) to/for head: top watch to pour: pour like/as water heart your before face Lord to lift: vow to(wards) him palm your upon soul: life infant your [the] to enfeeble in/on/with famine in/on/with head: top all outside

20 See, O LORD, and behold, to whom thou hast done thus! shall the women eat their fruit, the children that are dandled in the hands? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?

to see: see LORD and to look [emph?] to/for who? to abuse thus if: surely no to eat woman fruit their infant tender care if: surely no to kill in/on/with sanctuary Lord priest and prophet

21 The youth and the old man 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 slaughtered, [and] not pitied.

to lie down: lay down to/for land: soil outside youth and old virgin my and youth my to fall: fall in/on/with sword to kill in/on/with day face: anger your to slaughter not to spare

22 Thou hast called, as in the day of a solemn assembly, my terrors on every side, and there was none that escaped or remained in the day of the LORD’S anger: those that I have dandled and brought up hath mine enemy consumed.

to call: call to like/as day meeting: festival terror my from around: side and not to be in/on/with day face: anger LORD survivor and survivor which to extend and to multiply enemy my to end: destroy them