Lamentations 2:3

He has cut off in fierce anger all the strength of Israel.He has drawn back his right hand before the enemy.He has blazed in Jacob like a flaming fire, which devours all around.DALET

New Heart English Bible

In The King James Version

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 all the habitations of Jacob, and has not pitied.He has thrown down in his wrath the strongholds of the daughter of Judah.He has brought them down to the ground; he has humiliated the kingdom and its princes.GIMEL

4He has bent his bow like an enemy; his right hand he has positioned like an adversary.He killed all that were pleasant to the eye.In the tent of the daughter of Zion he has poured out his wrath like fire.HEY

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 34:25Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense to other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands; therefore is my wrath poured out on this place, and it shall not be quenched.'"'

Psalms 74:11Why do you draw back your hand, even your right hand?Take it out of your pocket and consume them!

Psalms 75:10I will cut off all the horns of the wicked,but the horns of the righteous shall be lifted up.

Psalms 89:24But my faithfulness and my loving kindness will be with him.In my name, his horn will be exalted.

Psalms 132:17There I will make the horn of David to bud.I have ordained a lamp for my anointed.

Isaiah 42:25Therefore he poured the fierceness of his anger on him,and the strength of battle;and it set him on fire all around, but he did not know;and it burned him, but he 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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