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Lamentations 1:12

New Living Translation

“Does it mean nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look around and see if there is any suffering like mine, which the Lord brought on me when he erupted in fierce anger.

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Your fierce anger has overwhelmed me. Your terrors have paralyzed me.

For I will shake the heavens. The earth will move from its place when the Lord of Heaven’s Armies displays his wrath in the day of his fierce anger.”

My wound is severe, and my grief is great. My sickness is incurable, but I must bear it.

Therefore, their land will become desolate, a monument to their stupidity. All who pass by will be astonished and will shake their heads in amazement.

Look! The Lord’s anger bursts out like a storm, a driving wind that swirls down on the heads of the wicked.

The fierce anger of the Lord will not diminish until it has finished all he has planned. In the days to come you will understand all this.

In all history there has never been such a time of terror. It will be a time of trouble for my people Israel. Yet in the end they will be saved!

So put on clothes of mourning and weep with broken hearts, for the fierce anger of the Lord is still upon us.

Did you not ridicule the people of Israel? Were they caught in the company of thieves that you should despise them as you do?

“The Lord is right,” Jerusalem says, “for I rebelled against him. Listen, people everywhere; look upon my anguish and despair, for my sons and daughters have been taken captive to distant lands.

The Lord in his anger has cast a dark shadow over beautiful Jerusalem. The fairest of Israel’s cities lies in the dust, thrown down from the heights of heaven. In his day of great anger, the Lord has shown no mercy even to his Temple.

What can I say about you? Who has ever seen such sorrow? O daughter of Jerusalem, to what can I compare your anguish? O virgin daughter of Zion, how can I comfort you? For your wound is as deep as the sea. Who can heal you?

You have kept your word and done to us and our rulers exactly as you warned. Never has there been such a disaster as happened in Jerusalem.

It is a day of darkness and gloom, a day of thick clouds and deep blackness. Suddenly, like dawn spreading across the mountains, a great and mighty army appears. Nothing like it has been seen before or will ever be seen again.

For there will be greater anguish than at any time since the world began. And it will never be so great again.




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