Translations
Modern
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.
Traditional
And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden: he hath destroyed his places of the assembly: the Lord hath caused the solemn feasts and sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion, and hath despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest.
Literal
He has treated violently His booth as a garden; He has destroyed His appointed place; YHWH has caused to be forgotten in Zion the appointed feast and Sabbath, and He has spurned in the rage of His anger king and priest!
Latin
Et dissipavit quasi hortum tentorium suum; demolitus est tabernaculum suum. Oblivioni tradidit Dominus in Sion festivitatem et sabbatum; et in opprobrium, et in indignationem furoris sui, regem et sacerdotem.
Original
Hebrew
English
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.
Notes
A garden shelter was a temporary structure that harvesters set up to provide shade. God had promised to care for his temple forever (1 Kings 9:3), but now it seemed he had abandoned it.
This chapter vividly shows the Lord acting as the one who destroys Jerusalem.
People
Sabbath: The seventh day of the week, set apart for rest and worship
Places
Jerusalem: The capital of Israel, a holy city for three religions
Glossary
Acrostic Ark of the Covenant Lamentations, Book of Poetry, Biblical
Topics
Anger: Anger of God Feasts: (Instituted by Moses): Designated As Solemn Feasts Hedges: Placed Around: Gardens Sabbath: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To The High Priest: Next in Rank to the King The Sabbath: The Wicked: May be Judicially Deprived of