In fierce anger He has cut off (a)All the (A)strength of Israel; He has (B)drawn back His right hand From before the enemy. And He has (C)burned in Jacob like a flaming fire Consuming round about.
He has bent His (D)bow like an enemy; He has set His right hand like an adversary And slain all that were (E)pleasant to the eye; In the tent of the daughter of Zion He has (F)poured out His wrath like fire.
The Lord has become like an (G)enemy. He has (H)swallowed up Israel; He has swallowed up all its (I)palaces, He has destroyed its strongholds And (J)multiplied in the daughter of Judah Mourning and moaning.