Lamentations 2:5-7

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

⁵ The Lord is like an enemy;
he has swallowed up Israel.
He swallowed up all its palaces
and destroyed its fortified cities.
He has multiplied mourning and lamentation
within Daughter Judah.^(A)

⁶ He has wrecked his temple^[a]
as if it were merely a shack in a field,^[b]
destroying his place of meeting.^(B)
The Lord has abolished
appointed festivals and Sabbaths in Zion.
He has despised king and priest
in his fierce anger.

⁷ The Lord has rejected his altar,
repudiated his sanctuary;^(C)
he has handed the walls of her palaces
over to the enemy.
They have raised a shout in the house of the Lord
as on the day of an appointed festival.