Lamentations 2:6

And 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

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden: he hath destroyed his places of the assembly: the LORD hath caused the solemn feasts and sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion, and hath despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest.

In Context

5Adonoi 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

7Adonoi hath cast off His Mizbe'ach, 1 He hath disowned His Mikdash, 1 He hath given up into the yad oyev 1 the chomot armonot of hers; 1 they have raised shouts in the Beis Hashem, 1 as in the Yom Mo'ed. 1

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Cross References

Psalms 74:7They have set ablaze Thy Mikdash, burning it to the ground; 1 they have brought chillul to the Mishkan Shemecha (the dwelling place of Thy Name). 1

Psalms 89:40Thou hast made void the Brit of Thy eved; 1 Thou hast profaned his nezer (diadem) to the ground. 1

Isaiah 1:13Bring no more futile minchot; 1 ketoret is an abomination unto Me; 1 Rosh Chodesh (New Moon) and Shabbos, the calling of assemblies — 1 I cannot endure aven (wickedness) and atzarah (solemn convocation). 1

Isaiah 5:6And I will lay it waste; 1 it shall not be pruned, 1 nor cultivated; 1 but there shall come up briers and thorns; 1 I will also command the clouds that they rain no matar (rain) upon it. 1

Isaiah 63:18Am Kadshecha (People of Thy holiness, Thy Holy People) have possessed it but a little while; 1 our adversaries have trampled down Thy Mikdash. 1

Jeremiah 42:18For thus saith Hashem Tzva'os Elohei Yisroel: As Mine anger and My wrath hath been poured forth upon the inhabitants of Yerushalayim, so shall My wrath be poured forth upon you, when ye shall enter into Mitzrayim; and ye shall be an oath, and a horror, and a kelalah (curse), and a cherpah; and ye shall see this makom no more.

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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