Lamentations 2:5

Adonoi was like an oyev; 1 He hath swallowed up Yisroel, 1 He hath swallowed up all her armonot (palaces); 1 He hath destroyed His strongholds, 1 and hath increased in Bat Yehudah mourning and lamentation. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

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 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

6And He hath violently destroyed His sukkah, 1 as if it were of a gan (garden); 1 He hath laid waste His Mo'ed; 1 Hashem hath caused Mo'ed and Shabbos 1 to be forgotten in Tziyon, 1 and in the indignation of His anger 1 hath spurned Melech and Kohen. 1

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Cross References

2 Kings 25:9And he set fire to the Beis Hashem, and the Bais HaMelech (the palace), and all the batim (houses) of Yerushalayim, and every bais hagadol he burned with eish. + 25:9 Tisha B'Av, see Jer 52:12

Job 19:11He hath also kindled His wrath against me, 1 and He counteth me unto Him as His tzar (enemy). 1

Isaiah 29:2Yet I will distress Ariel, 1 and there shall be heaviness and sorrow; 1 and it shall be unto me as ariel (altar hearth). + 29:2 See Ezek 43:15 1

Jeremiah 9:17And let them make haste, 1 and take up a nehi (lamentation) for us, 1 that our eyes may run down with dimah (tears), 1 and our eyelids gush out with mayim. 1

Jeremiah 30:14All thy lovers have forgotten thee; 1 they seek thee not; 1 for I have wounded thee with the makkat oyev, 1 with the musar (chastisement) of a cruel one, 1 for the multitude of thine avon, because thy sins were increased. 1

Lamentations 2:2Adonoi 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

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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