Lamentations 2:5

The Lord is become as an enemy: 1 He has overwhelmed Israel as in the sea, 1 He has overwhelmed her palaces: 1 He has destroyed his strongholds, 1 And has multiplied the afflicted and humbled ones 1 To the daughter of Judah. 1

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In The King James Version

The Lord was as an enemy: he hath swallowed up Israel, he hath swallowed up all her palaces: he hath destroyed his strong holds, and hath increased in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.

In Context

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

6And he has scattered his tabernacle as a vine, 1 He has marred his feast: 1 The Lord has forgotten the feast 1 And the Sabbath which he appointed in Zion, 1 And in the fury of his wrath 1 Has vexed the king, and priest, and prince. 1

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Cross References

2 Kings 25:9And he burned the house of the Lord, and the king’s house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every house did the captain of the guard burn.

Job 19:11And he has dreadfully handled me in anger, 1 And has counted me for an enemy. 1

Isaiah 29:2For I will grievously afflict Ariel: and her strength and her wealth shall be mine.

Jeremiah 9:17and let them take up a lamentation for you, and let your eyes pour down tears, and your eyelids drop water.

Jeremiah 30:14Therefore hear ye the counsel of the Lord, which he has framed against Edom; and his device, which he has devised against the inhabitants of Teman: surely the least of the sheep shall be swept off; surely their dwelling shall be made desolate for them.

Lamentations 2:2In 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

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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