Lamentations 2:17

Yahweh has done what he planned to do. He has fulfilled his word. 1 He has overthrown you without pity, 1 for he has permitted the enemy to rejoice over you; he has lifted up the horn of your enemies. 1

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The LORD hath done that which he had devised; he hath fulfilled his word that he had commanded in the days of old: he hath thrown down, and hath not pitied: and he hath caused thine enemy to rejoice over thee, he hath set up the horn of thine adversaries.

In Context

16All your enemies open their mouths against you. 1 They sneer and grind their teeth in rage and say, “We have swallowed her up! 1 This is the day we have waited for! We have lived to see it!” 1

18Their heart cried out to the Lord, 1 walls of the daughter of Zion! Make your tears flow down like a river day and night. 1 Give yourself no relief, your eyes no relief. 1

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Cross References

Leviticus 26:14But if you will not listen to me, and will not obey all these commandments,

Deuteronomy 29:18Make sure there is not among you any man, woman, clan, or tribe whose heart is turning away today from Yahweh our God, so as to go worship the gods of those nations. Make sure there is not among you any root that produces gall and wormwood.

Deuteronomy 32:15But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked— 1 you grew fat, you were too fat, and you had eaten your fill— 1 he abandoned the God who made him, 1 and he rejected the Rock of his salvation. 1

Psalms 38:16I say this so that my enemies will not gloat over me. 1 If my foot slips, they will do terrible things to me. 1

Psalms 89:43You turn back the edge of his sword 1 and have not made him stand when in battle. 1

Jeremiah 40:3So Yahweh brought it about. He did just as he had decreed, since you people sinned against him and did not obey his voice. That is why this thing has happened to you people.

Matthew Henry on Lamentations 2:11-22

Complicated Sorrows. ( b. c. 588.) 10 The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, and keep silence: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground. 11 Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city. 12 They say to their mothers, Where is corn… Read the whole commentary →

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