The Anger of Yahweh
א Aleph
How the Lord has acovered the daughter of Zion
With a cloud in His anger!
He has bcast from heaven to earth
The cbeauty of Israel,
And has not remembered the dfootstool of His feet
In the day of His anger.
ב Beth
2 The Lord has aswallowed up; He has not spared
All the habitations of Jacob.
In His wrath He has bpulled down
The strongholds of the daughter of Judah;
He has cbrought them down to the ground;
He has dprofaned the kingdom and its princes.
ג Gimel
3 In hot anger He has cut in pieces
All the astrength of Israel;
He has bturned back His right hand
From before the enemy.
And He has cburned in Jacob like a flaming fire
Devouring round about.
ד Daleth
4 He has bent His abow like an enemy;
He has set His right hand like an adversary
And killed all that were bdesirable to the eye;
In the tent of the daughter of Zion
He has cpoured out His wrath like fire.
ה He
5 The Lord has become like an aenemy.
He has bswallowed up Israel;
He has swallowed up all its cpalaces;
He has brought its strongholds to ruin
And dmultiplied in the daughter of Judah
Mourning and moaning.
ו Vav
6 And He has violently treated His tabernacle like a garden booth;
He has abrought His appointed meeting place to ruin.
Yahweh has bcaused to be forgotten
The appointed time and sabbath in Zion,
And He has cspurned king and priest
In the indignation of His anger.
ז Zayin
7 The Lord has arejected His altar;
He has abandoned His sanctuary;
He bhas delivered into the hand of the enemy
The walls of her palaces.
They have made a cnoise in the house of Yahweh
As in the day of an appointed time.
ח Heth
8 Yahweh determined to bring to ruin
The wall of the daughter of Zion.
He has astretched out a line;
He has not turned His hand back from swallowing up,
And He has bcaused rampart and wall to mourn;
They have languished together.
ט Teth
9 Her 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 no more.
Also, her prophets find
cNo vision from Yahweh.