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Lamentations 2:6

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

He shattered his temple like a hut in a garden; he completely wiped out his meeting place, and did away with festivals and Sabbaths in the city of Zion. In his fierce anger he rejected our king and priests.

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They burnt down your temple and badly disgraced it.

Your home is on Mount Zion in the city of peace.

Our Lord, why have you torn down the wall from around the vineyard? You let everyone who walks by pick the grapes.

The walls of his city have been broken through, and every fortress now lies in ruin.

Your sacrifices are worthless, and incense is disgusting. I can't stand the evil you do on your New Moon Festivals or on your Sabbaths and other times of worship.

Enemies surround Jerusalem, alone like a hut in a vineyard or in a cucumber field.

That's why I don't allow your priests to serve me; I let Israel be destroyed and your people disgraced.

Now I will let you know what I am going to do. I will cut down the hedge and tear down the wall. My vineyard will be trampled and left in ruins.

It will turn into a desert, neither pruned nor hoed; it will be covered with thorns and briars. I will command the clouds not to send rain.

For a little while, your temple belonged to us; and now our enemies have torn it down.

Zion's glorious and holy temple where our ancestors praised you has been destroyed by fire. Our beautiful buildings are now a pile of ruins.

But if you keep on carrying things through the city gates on the Sabbath and keep treating it as any other day, I will set fire to these gates and burn down the whole city, including the fortresses.

I, the LORD, was angry with the people of Jerusalem and punished them. And if you go to Egypt, I will be angry and punish you the same way. You will never again see your homeland. People will be horrified at what I do to you, and they will use the name of your city as a curse word.

But all over the earth I am tearing down what I built and pulling up what I planted.

The Babylonian army destroyed my temple, but soon I will take revenge. Then refugees from Babylon will tell about it in Zion.

The roads to Zion mourn because no one travels there to celebrate the festivals. The city gates are deserted; priests are weeping. Young women are raped; Zion is in sorrow!

The LORD is the one who sent them scattering, and he has forgotten them. No respect or kindness will be shown to the priests or leaders.

The LORD's chosen leader was our hope for survival! We thought he would keep us safe somewhere among the nations, but even he was caught in one of their traps.

Our rulers are strung up by their arms, and our nation's advisers are treated shamefully.

The king of Judah broke his own promises and ignored the treaty with Babylonia. And so he will be punished!

I'll wipe out your towns and your places of worship and will no longer be pleased with the smell of your sacrifices.

The LORD has promised: Your sorrow has ended, and you can celebrate.

So I caused everyone to hate and despise you, because you disobeyed me and failed to treat all people alike.




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