Lamentations 2:7

Yahweh has rejected his own altar and abandoned his temple. He has allowed our enemies to tear down the walls of our temple and our palaces. They shout victoriously in the temple of Yahweh, like we previously shouted during our sacred festivals.

Translation for Translators

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

6He has caused his temple to be smashed as easily as [SIM] if it was a shelter in a garden. He has caused us, his people, to forget all our sacred festivals and Sabbath days. He has caused our kings and priests to be rejected because he was extremely angry with them.

8Yahweh was determined to cause the walls of our city [MTY] to be torn down. It was as though he measured the walls and then he completely destroyed [MTY] them. It was as though he caused the towers and walls to lament/weep, because they were now ruins.

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Cross References

Leviticus 26:31I will cause your cities to become heaps of ruins, and I will cause the buildings that are dedicated to the worship of your gods to be smashed. And I will not be pleased at all with the aroma of your offerings that are burned on the altar.

2 Kings 25:9He commanded his soldiers to burn down the temple of Yahweh, the king’s palace, and all the houses in Jerusalem. So they burned down all the important buildings in the city.

Psalms 72:4Help me, your king, to defend the poor people and to rescue needy people and to defeat those who oppress them.

Psalms 74:4Your enemies shouted triumphantly in this sacred place; they erected their banners to show they had defeated us.

Isaiah 64:9Yahweh, do not continue to be angry with us; do not keep thinking about our sins forever. Do not forget that we are all your people.

Jeremiah 4:26I looked and saw that the fields that previously were fertile had become a desert. The cities were all ruined; they had all been destroyed by Yahweh because he was extremely angry.

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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