Lamentations 2:7

The Lord has rejected his altar, 1 He has cast off his sanctuary, 1 He has broken by the hand of the enemy 1 The wall of her palaces; 1 They have uttered their voice in the house of the Lord 1 As on a feast day. 1

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

The Lord hath cast off his altar, he hath abhorred his sanctuary, he hath given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces; they have made a noise in the house of the LORD, as in the day of a solemn feast.

In Context

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

8And he has turned to destroy 1 The wall of the daughter of Zion: 1 He has stretched out the measuring line, 1 He has not turned back his hand from afflicting her: 1 Therefore the bulwark mourned, 1 And the wall was weakened with it. 1

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Cross References

Leviticus 26:31And I will lay your cities waste, and I will make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will not smell the savor of your sacrifices.

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.

Psalms 72:4For there is no sign of reluctance in their death: 1 And they have firmness under their affliction. 1

Psalms 74:4The earth is dissolved, and all that dwell in it: 1 I have strengthened its pillars. Pause. 1

Isaiah 64:9The city of thy holiness has become desolate, Zion has become as a wilderness, Jerusalem a curse.

Jeremiah 4:26I saw, and, behold, Carmel was desert, and all the cities were burned with fire at the presence of the Lord, and at the presence of his fierce anger they were utterly destroyed.

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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