1ALEPH How the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger! He has cast down from heaven to the earth the splendor of Israel, 2The Lord has swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and has not pitied. 3He has cut off in fierce anger all the strength of Israel. 4He has bent his bow like an enemy; his right hand he has positioned like an adversary. 5The Lord has become as an enemy; he has swallowed up Israel; 6He has done violence to his temple, as if it were a garden; he has destroyed his place of assembly. 7The Lord has rejected his altar, he has disowned his sanctuary, and 8The LORD has determined to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion. 9Her gates are sunk into the ground; he has destroyed and broken her bars. 10The elders of the daughter of Zion sit on the ground in silence. 11My eyes are worn out from weeping, my stomach is churning. 12They tell their mothers, "Where is grain and wine?" 13What shall I testify of you? What shall I liken to you, daughter of Jerusalem? 14Your prophets have seen for you false and deceptive visions. 15All that pass by clap their hands at you, 16All your enemies have opened wide their mouth against you. 17The LORD has done that which he purposed, he has fulfilled his word that he commanded in the days of old. 18Their heart cried to the Lord. 19Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches. 20Look, LORD, and see to whom you have done like this! 21The youth and the old man lie on the ground in the streets; 22You have called, as in the day of a solemn assembly, my terrors on every side.