Lamentations 2:6

He 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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And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden: he hath destroyed his places of the assembly: the LORD hath caused the solemn feasts and sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion, and hath despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest.

In Context

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

7The Lord has rejected his altar and disowned his sanctuary. 1 He has given over the walls of her palaces into the hand of the enemy. 1 They have raised a shout in the house of Yahweh, as on the day of an appointed feast. 1

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Cross References

Psalms 74:7They set your sanctuary on fire; 1 they desecrated where you live, knocking it to the ground. 1

Psalms 89:40You have broken down all his walls. 1 You have ruined his strongholds. 1

Isaiah 1:13Bring no more meaningless offerings; incense is an abomination to me; 1 your new moon and Sabbath assemblies—I cannot tolerate these wicked assemblies. 1

Isaiah 5:6I will lay it waste, and it will not be pruned nor hoed. Instead, briers and thorns will spring up. 1 I will also command the clouds not to rain on it. 1

Isaiah 63:18Your people possessed your holy place for a short time, but then our enemies trampled it. 1

Jeremiah 42:18For Yahweh of hosts, God of Israel, says this: Just as my wrath and my fury were poured out on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, in the same way my fury will be poured out on you if you go to Egypt. You will become an object of cursing and a horror, an object for speaking curses, and something dishonorable, and you will not see this place again.'”

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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