4. Standing like an enemy, He has bent His bow;With His right hand, like an adversary,He has slain all who were pleasing to His eye;On the tent of the daughter of Zion,He has poured out His fury like fire.
5. The Lord was 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 done violence to His tabernacle,As if it were a garden;He has destroyed His place of assembly;The Lord has causedThe appointed feasts and Sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion.In His burning indignation He has spurned the king and the priest.
7. The Lord has spurned His altar,He has abandoned 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 set feast.