< Lamentations 2 >
1 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
How the Lord has covered the Daughter of Zion with the cloud of His anger! He has cast the glory of Israel from heaven to earth. He has abandoned His footstool in the day of His anger.
2 to swallow up Lord (and not *Q(K)*) 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
Without pity the Lord has swallowed up all the dwellings of Jacob. In His wrath He has demolished the fortified cities of the Daughter of Judah. He brought to the ground and defiled her kingdom and its princes.
3 to cut down/off (in/on/with burning *L(abh)*) 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
In fierce anger He has cut off every horn of Israel and withdrawn His right hand at the approach of the enemy. He has burned in Jacob like a flaming fire that consumes everything around it.
4 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
He has bent His bow like an enemy; His right hand is positioned. Like a foe He has killed all who were pleasing to the eye; He has poured out His wrath like fire on the tent of the Daughter of Zion.
5 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
The Lord is like an enemy; He has swallowed up Israel. He has swallowed up all her palaces and destroyed her strongholds. He has multiplied mourning and lamentation for the Daughter of Judah.
6 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
He has laid waste His tabernacle like a garden booth; He has destroyed His place of meeting. The LORD has made Zion forget her appointed feasts and Sabbaths. In His fierce anger He has despised both king and priest.
7 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
The Lord has rejected His altar; He has abandoned His sanctuary; He has delivered the walls of her palaces into the hand of the enemy. They have raised a shout in the house of the LORD as on the day of an appointed feast.
8 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
The LORD determined to destroy the wall of the Daughter of Zion. He stretched out a measuring line and did not withdraw His hand from destroying. He made the ramparts and walls lament; together they waste away.
9 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
Her gates have sunk into the ground; He has destroyed and shattered their bars. Her king and her princes are exiled among the nations, the law is no more, and even her prophets find no vision from the LORD.
10 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
The elders of the Daughter of Zion sit on the ground in silence. They have thrown dust on their heads and put on sackcloth. The young women of Jerusalem have bowed their heads to the ground.
11 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
My eyes fail from weeping; I am churning within. My heart is poured out in grief over the destruction of the daughter of my people, because children and infants faint in the streets of the city.
12 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
They cry out to their mothers: “Where is the grain and wine?” as they faint like the wounded in the streets of the city, as their lives fade away in the arms of their mothers.
13 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
What can I say for you? To what can I compare you, O Daughter of Jerusalem? To what can I liken you, that I may console you, O Virgin Daughter of Zion? For your wound is as deep as the sea. Who can ever heal you?
14 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 *Q(k)*) and to see to/for you oracle vanity: false and enticement
The visions of your prophets were empty and deceptive; they did not expose your guilt to ward off your captivity. The burdens they envisioned for you were empty and misleading.
15 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
All who pass by clap their hands at you in scorn. They hiss and shake their heads at the Daughter of Jerusalem: “Is this the city that was called the perfection of beauty, the joy of all the earth?”
16 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
All your enemies open their mouths against you. They hiss and gnash their teeth, saying, “We have swallowed her up. This is the day for which we have waited. We have lived to see it!”
17 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
The LORD has done what He planned; He has accomplished His decree, which He ordained in days of old; He has overthrown you without pity. He has let the enemy gloat over you and exalted the horn of your foes.
18 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
The hearts of the people cry out to the Lord. O wall of the Daughter of Zion, let your tears run down like a river day and night. Give yourself no relief, and your eyes no rest.
19 to arise: rise to sing (in/on/with night *Q(K)*) 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
Arise, cry out in the night from the first watch of the night. Pour out your heart like water in the presence of the Lord. Lift up your hands to Him for the lives of your children who are fainting from hunger on the corner of every street.
20 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
Look, O LORD, and consider: Whom have You ever treated like this? Should women eat their offspring, the infants they have nurtured? Should priests and prophets be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?
21 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
Both young and old lie together in the dust of the streets. My young men and maidens have fallen by the sword. You have slain them in the day of Your anger; You have slaughtered them without compassion.
22 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
You summoned my attackers on every side, as for the day of an appointed feast. In the day of the LORD’s anger no one escaped or survived; my enemy has destroyed those I nurtured and reared.