Lamentations 2:1

Lamentations 2:1 in 6 English translations. Each links through to the full chapter for context.

New International Version (NIV)

1How the Lord has covered Daughter Zion
with the cloud of his anger2:1 Or How the Lord in his anger / has treated Daughter Zion with contempt!
He has hurled down the splendor of Israel
from heaven to earth;
he has not remembered his footstool
in the day of his anger.

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New American Standard Bible - NASB (NASB2020)

1How the Lord has 2:1 Or scorned...Zion in His angercovered the daughter of Zion
With a cloud in His anger!
He has hurled
The glory of Israel from heaven to earth,
And has not remembered His footstool
In the day of His anger.

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New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995 (NASB1995)

1How the Lord has covered the daughter of Zion
With a cloud in His anger!
He has cast from heaven to earth
The glory of Israel,
And has not remembered His footstool
In the day of His anger.

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Amplified Bible (AMP)

1How the Lord has covered the Daughter of Zion (Jerusalem)
With a cloud in His anger!
He has cast down from heaven to the earth
The glory and splendor of Israel
And has not remembered His footstool
In the day of His anger.

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Berean Standard Bible (BSB)

1How2:1 This chapter is an acrostic poem, each verse beginning with the successive letters of the Hebrew alphabet. the Lord has covered the Daughter of Zion
with the cloud of His anger!
He has cast the glory of Israel
from heaven to earth.
He has abandoned His footstool
in the day of His anger.

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New International Reader’s Version (NIrV)

1See how the Lord covered the city of Zion
with the cloud of his anger!
He threw Israel’s glory down
from heaven to earth.
When he was angry, he turned his back
on his own city.

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