Lamentations 2:1-4   New International Version    

2 [a]How the Lord has covered Daughter Zion     with the cloud of his anger[b]! He has hurled down the splendor of Israel     from heaven to earth; he has not remembered his footstool     in the day of his anger.

2 Without pity the Lord has swallowed up     all the dwellings of Jacob; in his wrath he has torn down     the strongholds of Daughter Judah. He has brought her kingdom and its princes     down to the ground in dishonor.

3 In fierce anger he has cut off     every horn[c][d] of Israel. He has withdrawn his right hand     at the approach of the enemy. He has burned in Jacob like a flaming fire     that consumes everything around it.

4 Like an enemy he has strung his bow;     his right hand is ready. Like a foe he has slain     all who were pleasing to the eye; he has poured out his wrath like fire     on the tent of Daughter Zion.