Lamentations 2:17

The Lord has done that which he purposed; 1 He has accomplished his word, 1 Even the things which he commanded from the ancient days: 1 He has thrown down, and has not spared: 1 And he has caused the enemy to rejoice over thee, 1 He has exalted the horn of him that afflicted thee. 1

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

The LORD hath done that which he had devised; he hath fulfilled his word that he had commanded in the days of old: he hath thrown down, and hath not pitied: and he hath caused thine enemy to rejoice over thee, he hath set up the horn of thine adversaries.

In Context

16All thine enemies have opened their mouth against thee: 1 They have hissed and gnashed their teeth, 1 And said, We have swallowed her up: 1 Moreover this is the day which we looked for; 1 We have found it, we have seen it. 1

18Their heart cried to the Lord, 1 Ye walls of Zion, 1 Pour down tears like torrents day and night: 1 Give thyself no rest; 1 Let not the apple of thine eyes cease. 1

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Cross References

Leviticus 26:14But if ye will not hearken to me, nor obey these my ordinances,

Deuteronomy 29:18Lest there be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart has turned aside from the Lord your God, having gone to serve the gods of these nations; lest there be in you a root springing up with gall and bitterness.

Deuteronomy 32:15So Jacob ate and was filled, 1 And the beloved one kicked; 1 He grew fat, he became thick and broad: 1 Then he forsook the God that made him, 1 And departed from God his Savior. 1

Jeremiah 40:3Cry to me, and I will answer thee, and I will declare to thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.

Matthew Henry on Lamentations 2:11-22

Complicated Sorrows. ( b. c. 588.) 10 The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, and keep silence: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground. 11 Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city. 12 They say to their mothers, Where is corn… Read the whole commentary →

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