5 ^aThe Lord was like an enemy.
He has swallowed up Israel,
He has swallowed up all her palaces;
^bHe has destroyed her strongholds,
And has increased mourning and lamentation
In the daughter of Judah. ‡

6 He has done violence ^ato His tabernacle,
^bAs if it were a garden;
He has destroyed His place of assembly;
The Lord has caused
The appointed feasts and Sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion.
In His burning indignation He has ^cspurned the king and the priest. ‡

8 The Lord has¹ purposed to destroy
The ^awall of the daughter of Zion.
^bHe has stretched out a line;
He has not withdrawn His hand from destroying;
Therefore He has caused the rampart and wall to lament;
They languished together. ‡

9 Her gates have sunk into the ground;
He has destroyed and ^abroken her bars.
^bHer king and her princes are among the¹ nations;
^cThe Law is no more,
And her ^dprophets find no vision from the Lord. ‡