He has laid waste His tabernacle like a garden booth; He has destroyed His place of meeting. The LORD has made Zion forget her appointed feasts and Sabbaths. In His fierce anger He has despised both king and priest.
The roads to Zion mourn, because no one comes to her appointed feasts. All her gates are deserted; her priests groan, he
“I will gather those among you who grieve over the appointed feasts, so that you will no longer suffer reproach.
The presence of the LORD has scattered them; He regards them no more. The priests are shown no honor; the elders find no
He despised the oath by breaking the covenant. Seeing that he gave his hand in pledge yet did all these things, he will
And the Daughter of Zion is abandoned like a shelter in a vineyard, like a shack in a cucumber field, like a city besieg
So I will disgrace the princes of your sanctuary, and I will devote Jacob to destruction and Israel to reproach.”
Now I will tell you what I am about to do to My vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it will be consumed; I will te
Then he put out Zedekiah’s eyes, bound him with bronze shackles, and took him to Babylon, where he kept him in custody u
The LORD’s anointed, the breath of our life, was captured in their pits. We had said of him, “Under his shadow we will l
Our holy and beautiful temple, where our fathers praised You, has been burned with fire, and all that was dear to us lie
Bring your worthless offerings no more; your incense is detestable to Me. New Moons, Sabbaths, and convocations—I cannot
“So I in turn have made you despised and humiliated before all the people, because you have not kept My ways, but have s
For a short while Your people possessed Your holy place, but our enemies have trampled Your sanctuary.
Why have You broken down its walls, so that all who pass by pick its fruit?
You have broken down all his walls; You have reduced his strongholds to rubble.
And at dusk the prince among them will lift his bags to his shoulder and go out. They will dig through the wall to bring
Princes have been hung up by their hands; elders receive no respect.