Lamentations 2:3

He has broken in his fierce anger 1 All the horn of Israel: 1 He has turned back his right hand 1 From the face of the enemy, 1 And has kindled a flame in Jacob as fire, 1 And it has devoured all things round about. 1

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In The King James Version

He hath cut off in his fierce anger all the horn of Israel: he hath drawn back his right hand from before the enemy, and he burned against Jacob like a flaming fire, which devoureth round about.

In Context

2In the day of his wrath 1 The Lord has overwhelmed her as in the sea, 1 And not spared: 1 He has brought down in his fury 1 All the beautiful things of Jacob; 1 He has brought down to the ground 1 The strongholds of the daughter of Judah: 1 He has profaned her king and her princes. 1

4He has bent his bow as an opposing enemy: 1 He has strengthened his right hand as an adversary, 1 And has destroyed all the desirable things of my eyes 1 In the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion: 1 He has poured forth his anger as fire. 1

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 34:25because they have forsaken me, and burned incense to strange gods, that they might provoke me by all the works of their hands; and my wrath is kindled against this place, and it shall not be quenched.

Psalms 74:11And I will break all the horns of sinners; 1 But the horns of the righteous one shall be exalted.

Psalms 75:10When God arose to judgment, 1 To save all the meek in heart. Pause. 1

Isaiah 42:25So he brought upon them the fury of his wrath; and the war, and those that burned round about them, prevailed against them; yet no one of them knew it, neither did they lay it to heart.

Matthew Henry on Lamentations 2:2-10

Cause, Extent, and Greatness of Zion's Calamities. ( b. c. 588.) 1 How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger, and cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel, and remembered not his footstool in the day of his anger! 2 The Lord hath swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and hath not pitied: he hath thrown down in his wrath the strong holds of the daughter of Judah; he hath brought them down to the ground: he hath polluted the kingdom and the princes thereof. 3 He… Read the whole commentary →

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