2:1 主何竟發怒，使黑雲遮蔽錫安城！他將以色列的華美從天扔在地上；在他發怒的日子並不記念自己的腳凳。
2:2 主吞滅雅各一切的住處，並不顧惜。他發怒傾覆猶大民的保障，使這保障坍倒在地；他辱沒這國和其中的首領。
2:3 他發烈怒，把以色列的角全然砍斷，在仇敵面前收回右手。他像火焰四圍吞滅，將雅各燒毀。
2:4 他張弓好像仇敵；他站著舉起右手，如同敵人將悅人眼目的，盡行殺戮。在錫安百姓的帳棚上倒出他的忿怒，像火一樣。
Chapter 2
The Lord Has Destroyed Without Pity
1 How the Lord in his anger
has set the daughter of Zion under a cloud!
He
has cast down from heaven to earth
the splendor of Israel;
he has not remembered his footstool
in the day of his anger.
2 The Lord has swallowed up without mercy
all the habitations of Jacob;
in his wrath he has broken down
the strongholds of the daughter of Judah;
he has brought down to the ground in
dishonor
the kingdom and its rulers.
3 He has cut down in fierce anger
all the might of Israel;
he
has withdrawn from them his right hand
in the face of the enemy;
he
has burned like a flaming fire in Jacob,
consuming all around.
4 He has bent his bow like an enemy,
with his right hand set like a foe;
and he has killed all who were delightful
in our eyes
in the tent of the daughter of Zion;
he has poured out his fury like fire.
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上帝的發怒世人所受不了的，因為祂是大有全能的上帝，不是照我們的心意來發怒，而是照祂的公義審判來發怒，是沒有半點可以求饒的，祂說有就有，絕不是用情面可以解決的！
正如猶大人犯罪了，不因為他們是上帝的選民就可以輕罰，仍然一一究察，不能隨意放過！也因為如此，上帝設立基督來承擔我們一切的過犯的刑罰，好使我們不受上帝的憤怒！
因此，我們要為基督的救恩感謝上帝，若不是祂的代贖，沒有人能在上帝面前站立的住！因為罪是多麼的可怕，使我們活在上帝的憤怒之下！所以上帝要以基督的死來代贖，使我們謹記在心！
