ALEPH. How has the Lord darkened in His wrath the daughter of Zion! He has cast down the glory of Israel from heaven to earth, and has not remembered His footstool.

And I will lay your cities waste, and I will make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will not smell the savor of your sacrifices.

And yet not even thus, while they were in the land of their enemies, did I overlook them, nor did I loathe them so as to consume them, to break My covenant made with them; for I am the Lord their God.

God heard and lightly regarded [them], and greatly despised Israel.

And He gave their strength into captivity, and their beauty into the enemy's hand.

The city of Your holiness has become desolate, Zion has become as a wilderness, Jerusalem a curse.

The house, our sanctuary, and the glory which our fathers blessed, has been burned with fire; and all our glorious things have gone to ruin.

For go to My place which is in Shiloh, where I caused My name to dwell before, and see what I did to it because of the wickedness of My people Israel.

Therefore I also will do to the house which is called by My name, in which you trust, and to the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I did to Shiloh.

then will I make this house as Shiloh, and I will make [this] city a curse to all the nations of all the earth.

Micah the Moreshite lived in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and said to all the people of Judah, Thus says the Lord; Zion shall be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become a desolation, and the mountain of the house shall be a thicket of trees.

and he burned the house of the Lord, and the king's house, and all the houses of the city, and every great house he burned with fire.

[As for] their choice ornaments, they employed them for pride, and they made of them images of their abominations; therefore have I made them uncleanness to them.

And I will turn away My face from them, and they shall defile My secret place, and shall go in to them unguardedly, and profane them.

Say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord: Behold, I [will] profane My sanctuary, the boast of your strength, the desire of your eyes, and for which your souls are concerned; and your sons and your daughters, whom you have left, shall fall by the sword.

Therefore on your account Zion shall be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall be as a storehouse of fruits, and the mountain of the house as a grove of the forest.

But Jesus said to them, "Do you not see all these things? Assuredly I say to you, by no means will a stone be left here upon a stone, which shall not be thrown down."

And they put forward false witnesses saying, "This man does not cease to speak blasphemous words against the holy place and the law;

for we have heard him saying that this Jesus the Nazarene will destroy this place and change the customs which Moses handed down to us."

HE. The Lord has become as an enemy; He has overwhelmed Israel as in the sea, He has overwhelmed her palaces; He has destroyed her strongholds, and has multiplied the afflicted and humbled ones to the daughter of Judah.

And he burned the house of the Lord, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem, and burned its palaces with fire, and [utterly destroyed] every beautiful vessel.

and the Chaldeans shall come to war against this city, and they shall burn this city with fire, and shall burn down the houses where they burnt incense on its roofs to Baal, and poured out drink offerings to other gods, to provoke Me.

Cry out to Me, and I will answer you, and I will declare to you great and mighty things, which you know not.

For thus says the Lord concerning the houses of this city, and concerning the houses of the king of Judah, which have been pulled down for mounds and fortifications,

[This translation omits this verse.]

And I will turn back the boasting of their strength; and their holy things shall be defiled.

And I will send a fire on Judah, and it shall devour the foundations of Jerusalem.

He shall judge the poor of the people in righteousness, and save the children of the needy; and shall bring low the false accuser.

He shall come down as rain upon a fleece, and as drops falling upon the earth.

And He shall have dominion from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth.

The kings of Tarshish, and the isles, shall bring presents: the kings of the Arabians and Sheba shall offer gifts.

For He has delivered the poor from the oppressor; and the needy who had no helper.

He shall redeem their souls from oppression and injustice, and their name [shall be] precious before Him.

There shall be an establishment on the earth on the tops of the mountains; its fruit shall be exalted above Lebanon, and those of the city shall flourish as grass of the earth.

Blessed is the Lord God of Israel, who alone does wonders.

The hymns of David the son of Jesse are ended.

Lift up Your hands against their pride continually; [because of] all that the enemy has done wickedly in Your holy places.

ignorantly as it were in the entrance above;

They have burned Your sanctuary with fire to the ground; they have profaned the habitation of Your name.

And I will deliver them into the hands of strangers to make them a prey, and to the pests of the earth for a spoil; and they shall profane them.

And I will turn away My face from them, and they shall defile My secret place, and shall go in to them unguardedly, and profane them.