Yod
“Enemies
Have stretched out
Their hands
Over all
Her precious things.
She has even seen
The nations
Invade her sanctuary.
You had forbidden
Your congregation
To enter it.”
The enemies of Jerusalem and Yahweh have put their hands all over her precious things in the sanctuary. Now all kinds of people and countries have invaded the Temple sanctuary in Jerusalem, the very places where Yahweh’s own congregation was not even allowed to enter. This verse starts with the Hebrew consonant letter Yod. Each verse after this will use the next letter of the Hebrew alphabet in this acrostic poem.