“The Lord vented His fury; He poured out His enflamed wrath. He ignited a fire in Zion, and it consumed her foundations” (Lamentations 4:11).“The Lord vented His fury; He poured out His enflamed wrath.” Rabbi [Yehuda HaNasi] said: There are four outpourings that are positive and four outpourings that are negative. Four outpourings that are positive, as it is stated: “I will pour upon the house of David and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and supplication” (Zechariah 12:10). “It will be thereafter, I will pour My spirit upon all flesh…” (Joel 3:1). “In those days, I will pour My spirit upon the slaves and upon the maidservants, as well” (Joel 3:2). “I will no longer hide My face from them, as I will pour My spirit upon the house of Israel, the utterance of the Lord God” (Ezekiel 39:29). And four outpourings that are negative, as it is stated: “He poured upon it the fury of His wrath” (Isaiah 42:25). And in Ezekiel it is written: “As You pour Your fury upon Jerusalem” (Ezekiel 9:8). And it is written: “He poured out His fury like fire” (Lamentations 2:4). And this one: “The Lord vented His fury; He poured out His enflamed wrath.”“He ignited a fire in Zion.” It is written: “A psalm of Asaf: God, peoples have invaded Your inheritance” (Psalms 79:1). The verse should have said weeping of Asaf, wailing of Asaf, lamentation of Asaf. Why does it say: “A psalm of Asaf”? This is analogous to a king who prepared a wedding house for his son and he plastered it, carved wall sculptures in it, and made drawings in it. His son went astray. Immediately, the king ascended to the wedding house, ripped the curtains, broke the poles. [The son’s] mentor took a reed flute and began playing. They said to him: ‘The king overturned his son’s wedding house, and you are sitting and playing?’ He said: ‘I am playing because he overturned his son’s wedding canopy and he did not vent his rage on his son.’ So too, they said to Asaf: ‘The Holy One blessed be He destroyed the Sanctuary and the Temple, and you are sitting and playing?’ He said: ‘I am playing because the Holy One blessed be He vented His wrath on the wood and stones and did not vent His wrath on Israel.’ That is what is written: “He ignited a fire in Zion, and it consumed her foundations.”