Lamentations 2:3

With fierce anger he has cut off every horn of Israel. 1 He has withdrawn his right hand from before the enemy. 1 He has burned up Jacob like a blazing fire that devours everything around it. 1

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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

2The Lord has swallowed up and has had no compassion on all the towns of Jacob. 1 In the days of his anger he has thrown down the fortified cities of the daughter of Judah; 1 in dishonor he has brought down to the ground the kingdom and its rulers. 1

4Like an enemy he has bent his bow toward us, 1 with his right is ready to shoot. 1 He has slaughtered all who had been so pleasing to him in the tent of the daughter of Zion; 1 he has poured out his wrath like fire. 1

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 34:25This will happen because they have forsaken me and have burned incense to other gods, and they have provoked me to anger by all that their hands have made, therefore, my anger will be poured out on this place, and it will not be extinguished.' + 34:25 Instead of will be poured out on this place , some versions have, will be kindled against this place .

Psalms 74:11Why do you hold back your hand, your right hand? 1 Take your right hand from your garment and destroy them. 1

Psalms 75:10He says, “I will cut off all the horns of the wicked, 1 but the horns of the righteous will be raised up.”

Psalms 89:24My truth and my covenant faithfulness will be with him; 1 by my name he will be victorious. 1

Psalms 132:17There I will make a horn to sprout for David 1 and set up a lamp for my anointed one. 1

Isaiah 42:25Therefore he poured out on them his fierce anger and the violence of war, 1 Its flames encircled them, yet they did not understand; 1 it consumed them, but they did not take it to heart.

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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