5. The Lord has become like an enemy;He has swallowed up Israel,He has swallowed up all her palaces;He has destroyed her strongholds,and has increased mourning and lamentationin the daughter of Judah.
6. He has violently taken away His tabernacle as if it were a garden;He has destroyed His place of assembly;the Lord has caused the solemn feasts and Sabbathsto be forgotten in Zion.In his fierce indignation He has despised the king and the priest.
7. The Lord has scorned His altar,He has disowned His sanctuary;He has given up the walls of her palacesinto the hand of the enemy.They have made a noise in the house of the Lordas on the day of a solemn feast.
8. The Lord has purposed to destroythe wall of the daughter of Zion.He has stretched out a line;He has not withdrawn His hand from destroying;therefore He caused the rampart and the wall to lament;they languished together.
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,and her prophets findno vision from the Lord.
10. The elders of the daughter of Zionsit on the ground in silence;they throw dust on their headsand gird themselves with sackcloth.The virgins of Jerusalembow their heads to the ground.
11. My eyes fail with tears,my spirit is greatly troubled;my bile is poured on the groundbecause of the destruction of the daughter of my people,because the children and infants faintin the streets of the city.