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Lamentations 2:6

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

He has wrecked his temple as if it were merely a shack in a field, destroying his place of meeting. The Lord has abolished appointed festivals and Sabbaths in Zion. He has despised king and priest in his fierce anger.

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I will gather those who have been driven from the appointed festivals; they will be a tribute from you and a reproach on her.


The roads to Zion   mourn, for no one comes to the appointed festivals. All her gates are deserted; her priests groan, her young women grieve, and she herself is bitter.


The Lord himself has scattered them; he no longer watches over them. The priests are not respected; the elders find no favour.


‘So I in turn have made you despised  and humiliated before all the people because you are not keeping my ways but are showing partiality in your instruction.’


He despised the oath by breaking the covenant. He did all these things even though he gave his hand in pledge.  He will not escape!


Princes have been hung up by their hands; elders are shown no respect.


The Lord’s anointed, the breath of our life,  , was captured in their traps. We had said about him, ‘We will live under his protection among the nations.’


Our holy and beautiful   temple, where our ancestors praised you, has been burned down, and all that was dear to us lies in ruins.


Your holy people had a possession for a little while, but our enemies have trampled down your sanctuary.


So I defiled the officers of the sanctuary, and set Jacob apart for destruction and Israel for scorn.


Now I will tell you what I am about to do to my vineyard: I will remove its hedge, and it will be consumed; I will tear down its wall, and it will be trampled.


Stop bringing useless offerings. Your incense is detestable to me. New Moons and Sabbaths, and the calling of solemn assemblies   – I cannot stand iniquity  with a festival.


Daughter Zion  is abandoned like a shelter in a vineyard, like a shack in a cucumber field, like a besieged city.


But if you do not listen to me to keep the Sabbath day holy by not carrying a load while entering the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day, I will set fire to its gates,  and it will consume the citadels  of Jerusalem  and not be extinguished.” ’


There is a voice of fugitives and refugees from the land of Babylon. The voice announces in Zion the vengeance of the  Lord our God, the vengeance for his temple.


I will reduce your cities to ruins and devastate your sanctuaries. I will not smell the pleasing aroma of your sacrifices.


I will make it a wasteland. It will not be pruned or weeded; thorns and briars will grow up. I will also give orders to the clouds that rain should not fall on it.


‘For this is what the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, says: “Just as my anger and fury were poured out on Jerusalem’s residents,  so will my fury pour out on you if you go to Egypt. You will become an example for cursing, scorn,  execration, and disgrace, and you will never see this place again.”


‘This is what you are to say to him: “This is what the Lord says: ‘What I have built I am about to demolish, and what I have planted I am about to uproot   #– #the whole land!





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