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Ecclesiastes Chapter 2

1 How hath the LORD covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his

3 He hath cut off in his fierce anger all the horn of Israel: he

4 He hath bent his bow like an enemy: he stood with his right hand

5 The LORD was as an enemy: he hath swallowed up Israel, he hath

6 And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of

7 The LORD hath cast off his altar, he hath abhorred his sanctuary,

8 The LORD hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of

9 Her gates are sunk into the ground; he hath destroyed and broken

10 The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, and keep

11 Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is

12 They say to their mothers, Where is corn and wine? when they

13 What thing shall I take to witness for thee? what thing shall I

15 All that pass by clap their hands at thee; they hiss and wag

17 The LORD hath done that which he had devised; he hath fulfilled

18 Their heart cried unto the LORD, O wall of the daughter of Zion,

19 Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour

20 Behold, O LORD, and consider to whom thou hast done this. Shall

22 Thou hast called as in a solemn day my terrors round about, so