Lamentations 2:5

The 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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The Lord was as an enemy: he hath swallowed up Israel, he hath swallowed up all her palaces: he hath destroyed his strong holds, and hath increased in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.

In Context

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

6He has attacked his tabernacle like a garden hut. He has destroyed the place of the solemn assembly. 1 Yahweh has caused both solemn assembly and Sabbath to be forgotten in Zion, 1 for he has despised both king and priest in the indignation of his anger. 1

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Cross References

2 Kings 25:9He burned the house of Yahweh, the king's palace, and all the houses of Jerusalem; also every important building in the city he burned.

Job 19:11He has also kindled his wrath against me; 1 he regards me as one of his adversaries. 1

Isaiah 29:2But I will besiege Ariel, and she will be mourning and lamenting; 1 and she will be to me like Ariel. 1

Jeremiah 9:17Yahweh of hosts says this, “Think about this: Summon 1 funeral singers; let them come. Send out for women skilled at lamenting; let them come. 1

Jeremiah 30:14All of your lovers have forgotten you. They will not look for you, 1 for I have wounded you with the wound of an enemy and the discipline of a cruel master 1 because of your many iniquities and your innumerable sins. 1

Lamentations 2:2The 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

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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