21 Upon hearing my sighs, none came to comfort me. All my enemies heard of my misfortune and rejoiced that You have brought about the recompense You threatened. May they suffer the same fate!
22 View their Wickedness, and eXecute justice upon them, just as You have penaliZed me for my many transgressions. My sighing is endless; I am sick at heart.
CHAPTER 2
1 Alas! How can this be? The Lord in His anger has utterly rejected Fair Zion. From the very heavens, He has cast majestic Israel down to Earth, sparing, in His day of wrath, not even the Sanctuary that was His footstool.
2 Broken and battered are the dwelling places of Jacob. Mercilessly, the Lord has, in His anger, razed to the very ground the fortress strongholds of Fair Judea. The kingdom and its nobles are profaned.
3 Cut down is the pride of Israel! In His anger, God has withdrawn His protective, right hand in the very presence of the foe! He has loosed a raging, all-consuming fire upon Jacob.
4 Deploying His bow like a sworn enemy, taking aim like a bitter foe, God has slain all He formerly looked upon with such favor and delight. He has poured out His wrath like fire upon Fair Zion’ s shrine.
5 Executing His onslaught like a foe, God has laid waste to Israel, laid waste her fortifications, destroyed her fortress strongholds. He has multiplied weeping and wailing, keening and crying in Fair Judea.
6 Felling His own Tabernacle like a crop ripe for harvest, the Lord has destroyed His cultic center. Zion’ s Festivals and
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