WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:05.460 Chapter 2 How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his 00:05.460 --> 00:09.280 hanger, and cast down from heaven and to the earth the beauty of Israel, 00:09.520 --> 00:12.380 and remembered not his footstool in the day of his anger? 00:13.420 --> 00:17.800 The Lord hath swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and hath not pitied. 00:18.560 --> 00:22.460 He hath thrown down in his wrath the strongholds of the daughter of Judah. 00:23.200 --> 00:24.780 He hath brought them down to the ground. 00:25.420 --> 00:27.980 He hath polluted the kingdom and the princes thereof. 00:28.700 --> 00:32.460 He hath cut off in his fierce anger all the horn of Israel. 00:33.320 --> 00:37.520 He hath drawn back his right hand from before the enemy, and he burned against 00:37.520 --> 00:40.460 Jacob like a flaming fire which Jebaroth ran about. 00:41.400 --> 00:43.300 He hath bent his bow like an enemy. 00:44.000 --> 00:48.120 He stood with his right hand as an adversary, and slew all that were pleasant 00:48.120 --> 00:50.920 to the eye in the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion. 00:51.860 --> 00:54.060 He poured out his fury like fire. 00:55.320 --> 00:56.700 The Lord was as an enemy. 00:56.700 --> 00:58.640 He hath swallowed up Israel. 00:59.260 --> 01:01.060 He hath swallowed up all her palaces. 01:02.060 --> 01:05.560 He hath destroyed his strongholds, and hath increased in the daughter of 01:05.560 --> 01:07.280 Judah mourning and lamentation. 01:07.960 --> 01:12.220 And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle as if it were of a garden. 01:13.080 --> 01:15.300 He hath destroyed his places of the assembly. 01:16.000 --> 01:19.460 The Lord hath caused the solemn feasts and Sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion, 01:20.060 --> 01:23.680 and hath despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest. 01:24.760 --> 01:26.740 The Lord hath cast off his altar. 01:27.640 --> 01:28.940 He hath abhorred his sanctuary. 01:29.840 --> 01:33.100 He hath given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces. 01:34.000 --> 01:37.840 They have made a noise in the house of the Lord as in the day of a solemn feast. 01:38.940 --> 01:41.900 The Lord hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion. 01:42.640 --> 01:43.900 He hath stretched out a line. 01:44.260 --> 01:46.480 He hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying. 01:47.320 --> 01:49.900 Therefore he made the rampart and the wall to lament. 01:50.620 --> 01:51.760 They languished together. 01:52.420 --> 01:54.520 Her gates are sunk into the ground. 01:55.340 --> 01:57.160 He hath destroyed and broken her bars. 01:57.600 --> 01:59.760 Her king and her princes are among the Gentiles. 02:00.680 --> 02:01.900 The law is no more. 02:02.820 --> 02:05.320 Her prophets also find no vision from the Lord. 02:06.140 --> 02:09.640 The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground and keep silence. 02:10.300 --> 02:12.140 They have cast up dust upon their heads. 02:12.740 --> 02:14.620 They have girded themselves with sackcloth. 02:15.260 --> 02:18.040 The virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground. 02:18.040 --> 02:20.580 Mine eyes do fail with tears. 02:20.820 --> 02:21.840 My bowels are troubled. 02:22.240 --> 02:26.280 My liver is poured upon the earth for the destruction of the daughter of my people. 02:26.860 --> 02:30.280 Because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city. 02:31.100 --> 02:34.040 They say to their mothers, Where is corn and wine? 02:34.640 --> 02:37.220 When they swooned as the wounded in the streets of the city. 02:37.400 --> 02:39.740 When the soul was poured out into their mother's bosom. 02:40.500 --> 02:42.560 What thing shall I take to witness for thee? 02:43.340 --> 02:46.200 What thing shall I liken to thee, O daughter of Jerusalem? 02:46.200 --> 02:51.500 What shall I equal to thee, that I may comfort thee, O virgin daughter of Zion? 02:52.220 --> 02:54.380 For thy breach is great like the sea. 02:54.540 --> 02:55.480 Who can heal thee? 02:56.580 --> 02:58.920 Thy prophets have seen vain and foolish things for thee. 02:59.440 --> 03:02.640 And they have not discovered thine iniquity to turn away thy captivity. 03:03.340 --> 03:06.540 But have seen for thee false burdens and causes of banishment. 03:07.340 --> 03:09.280 All that pass by clap their hands at thee. 03:09.680 --> 03:12.500 They hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, 03:12.500 --> 03:16.520 Is this the city that men call the perfection of beauty, the joy of the whole 03:16.520 --> 03:16.900 earth? 03:17.680 --> 03:20.040 All thine enemies have opened their mouth against thee. 03:20.300 --> 03:21.720 They hiss and gnash the teeth. 03:22.000 --> 03:23.740 They say, We have swallowed her up. 03:24.360 --> 03:26.140 Certainly this is the day that we looked for. 03:27.000 --> 03:27.980 We have found. 03:28.560 --> 03:29.300 We have seen it. 03:30.320 --> 03:32.360 The Lord hath done that which he had devised. 03:32.940 --> 03:35.820 He hath fulfilled his word that he had commanded in the days of old. 03:36.280 --> 03:38.020 He hath thrown down and hath not pitied. 03:38.420 --> 03:40.760 And he hath caused thine enemy to rejoice over thee. 03:40.760 --> 03:43.480 He hath set up the horn of thine adversaries. 03:44.620 --> 03:46.060 The heart cried unto the Lord. 03:46.660 --> 03:50.420 O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and 03:50.420 --> 03:50.800 night. 03:51.180 --> 03:52.340 Give thyself no rest. 03:52.900 --> 03:54.840 Let not the apple of thine eye cease. 03:55.720 --> 03:57.880 Arise, cry out in the night. 03:58.280 --> 04:02.140 In the beginning of the watchers pour out thine heart like water before the face of 04:02.140 --> 04:02.560 the Lord. 04:03.300 --> 04:07.400 Lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children that faint for 04:07.400 --> 04:09.040 hunger on the top of every street. 04:10.200 --> 04:14.120 Behold, O Lord, and consider to whom thou hast done this. 04:15.240 --> 04:17.640 Shall the women eat their fruit and children of a span long? 04:18.320 --> 04:21.480 Shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord? 04:22.180 --> 04:24.960 The young and the old lie on the ground in the streets. 04:25.820 --> 04:28.160 My virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword. 04:28.880 --> 04:31.140 Thou hast slain them in the day of thine anger. 04:32.260 --> 04:34.280 Thou hast killed and not pitied. 04:35.080 --> 04:39.620 Thou hast called, as in a solemn day, my terrors round about, so that in the day 04:39.620 --> 04:41.940 of the Lord's anger none escaped nor remained. 04:42.940 --> 04:46.660 Those that I have swaddled and brought up hath mine enemy consumed.