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1.22 :Let all their wickedness come before Thee;
 * And do unto them,
 * As Thou hast done unto me
 * For all my transgressions;
 * For my sighs are many,
 * And my heart is faint.'


 * How hath the Lord covered with a cloud
 * The daughter of Zion in His anger!
 * He hath cast down from heaven unto the earth
 * The beauty of Israel,
 * And hath not remembered His footstool
 * In the day of His anger.
 * The Lord hath swallowed up unsparingly
 * All the habitations of Jacob;
 * He hath thrown down in His wrath
 * The strongholds of the daughter of Judah;
 * He hath brought them down to the ground;
 * He hath profaned the kingdom and the princes thereof.
 * He hath cut off in fierce anger
 * All the horn of Israel;
 * He hath drawn back His right hand
 * From before the enemy;
 * And He hath burned in Jacob like a flaming fire,
 * Which devoureth round about.
 * He hath bent His bow like an enemy,
 * Standing with His right hand as an adversary,
 * And hath slain all that were pleasant to the eye;
 * In the tent of the daughter of Zion
 * He hath poured out His fury like fire.
 * The Lord is become as an enemy,
 * He hath swallowed up Israel;
 * He hath swallowed up all her palaces,
 * He hath destroyed his strongholds;
 * And He hath multiplied in the daughter of Judah
 * Mourning and moaning.
 * And He hath stripped His tabernacle, as if it were a garden,
 * He hath destroyed His place of assembly;
 * The hath caused to be forgotten in Zion
 * Appointed season and sabbath,
 * And hath rejected in the indignation of His anger
 * The king and the priest.
 * The Lord hath cast off His altar,
 * He hath abhorred His sanctuary,
 * He hath given up into the hand of the enemy
 * The walls of her palaces;
 * They have made a noise in the house of the ,
 * As in the day of a solemn assembly.
 * The hath purposed to destroy
 * The wall of the daughter of Zion;
 * He hath stretched out the line,
 * He hath not withdrawn
 * His hand from destroying;
 * But He hath made the rampart and wall to mourn,
 * They languish together.
 * Her gates are sunk into the ground;
 * He hath destroyed and broken her bars;
 * Her king and her princes are among the nations,
 * Instruction is no more;
 * Yea, her prophets find
 * No vision from the.
 * They sit upon the ground, and keep silence,
 * The elders of the daughter of Zion;
 * They have cast up dust upon their heads,
 * They have girded themselves with sackcloth;
 * The virgins of Jerusalem hang down
 * Their heads to the ground.