Lamentations 2:3

He hath cut off in His fierce anger 1 kol keren Yisroel; 1 He hath drawn back His right hand 1 from before the oyev, 1 and He burned against Ya'akov like a flaming eish, 1 which devoureth all around. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

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

2Adonoi hath swallowed up 1 all the habitations of Ya'akov, and hath not pitied; 1 He hath torn down in His Wrath 1 the strongholds of Bat Yehudah; 1 He hath brought them down to the ground; 1 chillel (He hath defiled) the mamlachah and the sarim (princes) thereof. 1

4He hath bent His keshet (bow) like an oyev; 1 He took His stand with His right hand as an adversary, 1 and slaughtered all that were pleasant 1 to the eye in the ohel Bat Tziyon; 1 He poured out His fury like eish. 1

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 34:25Because they have forsaken Me, and have burned ketoret unto elohim acherim, that they might provoke Me to anger with all the works of their hands; therefore My wrath shall be poured out upon this place, and shall not be quenched.

Psalms 74:11Why withdrawest Thou Thy Yad, even Thy Yamin (Right Hand)? 1 Take it out of Thy Kheyk (bosom) and destroy. + 74:11 them 1

Psalms 75:10But I will proclaim l'olam; 1 I will sing zemirot to Elohei Ya'akov. 1

Psalms 89:24And I will beat down his tzar before his face, 1 and strike down them that hate him. 1

Psalms 132:17There atzmi'ach (I will make sprout) + 132:17 i.e., Tzemach the Keren of Dovid; 1 I have ordained a ner (lamp) for My Moshiach. 1

Isaiah 42:25Therefore He hath poured upon it 1 the chemah (burning heat) of His anger, 1 and the strength of the fury of milchamah; 1 and it hath set him on fire round about, 1 yet it knew not; 1 and it consumed it, 1 yet it laid it not to lev.

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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