1  How the Lord in his anger

has set the daughter of Zion under a cloud!

He has cast down from heaven to earth

the splendor of Israel;

he has not remembered his ^sfootstool

in the day of his anger.

2  The Lord has swallowed up ^twithout mercy

all the habitations of Jacob;

in his wrath he has broken down

the strongholds of the daughter of Judah;

he has brought down to the ground in dishonor

the kingdom and its rulers.

3  He has cut down in fierce anger

all the might of Israel;

he has ^uwithdrawn from them his right hand

in the face of the enemy;

he has burned like a flaming fire in Jacob,

consuming all around.

4  He has ^vbent his bow like an enemy,

with his right hand set like a foe;

and he has killed all who were delightful in our eyes;

in the tent of the daughter of Zion,

he has poured out his fury like fire.

5  The Lord has become like an enemy;

he has swallowed up Israel;

he has swallowed up all its palaces;

he has laid in ruins its ^wstrongholds,

and he has multiplied in the daughter of Judah

mourning and lamentation.

6  He has laid waste his booth like a garden,

laid in ruins his meeting place;

the Lord has made Zion forget

festival and Sabbath,

and in his fierce indignation has spurned king and priest.

7  The Lord has scorned his altar,

disowned his sanctuary;

he has ^xdelivered into the hand of the enemy

the walls of her palaces;

they raised a clamor in the house of the Lord

as on the day of festival.

8  The Lord determined to lay in ruins

the wall of the daughter of Zion;

he stretched out the ^ymeasuring line;

he did not restrain his hand from destroying;

he caused rampart and wall to lament;

they languished together.

32  for, though he cause grief, he will have compassion

according to the ^pabundance of his steadfast love;