Lamentations 2:4

Like 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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He hath bent his bow like an enemy: he stood with his right hand as an adversary, and slew all that were pleasant to the eye in the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion: he poured out his fury like fire.

In Context

3With fierce anger he has cut off every horn of Israel. 1 He has withdrawn his right hand from before the enemy. 1 He has burned up Jacob like a blazing fire that devours everything around it. 1

5The Lord has become like an enemy. He has swallowed up Israel. 1 He has swallowed up all her palaces. He has destroyed her strongholds. 1 He has increased mourning and lamentation within the daughter of Judah. 1

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Cross References

Leviticus 26:17I will set my face against you, and you will be overpowered by your enemies. Men who hate you will rule over you, and you will run away, even when no one is chasing you.

1 Samuel 28:16Samuel said, “What then do you ask me, since Yahweh has left you, and he has become your enemy?

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 .

Job 16:12I was at ease, and he broke me apart. 1 Indeed, he has taken me by the neck and dashed me to pieces; 1 he has also set me up as his target. 1

Psalms 7:13He prepares to use weapons against him; 1 he makes his arrows flaming shafts. 1

Isaiah 51:17Awake, awake, stand up, Jerusalem, 1 you who have drunk out of the hand of Yahweh from the bowl of his anger; 1 you who have drunk out of the bowl, down to the dregs from the cup of staggering. 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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