5The Lord has become like an aenemy.He has bswallowed up Israel;He has swallowed up all its cpalaces;He has brought its strongholds to ruinAnd dmultiplied in the daughter of JudahMourning and moaning.
ו Vav
6And He has violentlytreated His 1tabernacle like a gardenbooth;He has abrought His appointed2meetingplace to ruin.Yahweh has bcaused to be forgottenThe appointedtime and sabbath in Zion,And He has cspurnedking and priestIn the indignation of His anger.
ז Zayin
7The Lord has arejected His altar;He has abandoned His sanctuary;He bhas delivered into the hand of the enemyThe walls of her palaces.They have made a cnoise in the house of YahwehAs in the day of an appointedtime.
ח Heth
8Yahweh1determined to bring to ruinThe wall of the daughter of Zion.He has astretchedout a line;He has not turned His hand back from swallowing up,And He has bcaused rampart and wall to mourn;They have languishedtogether.
ט Teth
9Her agates have sunk into the ground;He has destroyed and broken her bars.Her king and her princes are among the nations;The blaw is nomore.Also, her prophetsfindcNovision from Yahweh.