Lamentations 2:5

The Lord has become as an enemy; he has swallowed up Israel;he has swallowed up all her palaces and has destroyed its strongholds.He has multiplied in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.VAV

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In The King James Version

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

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

6He has done violence to his temple, as if it were a garden; he has destroyed his place of assembly.The Lord has caused solemn assembly and Sabbath to be forgotten in Zion.He has spurned in his fierce anger the king and the priest.ZAYIN

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Cross References

2 Kings 25:9He burnt the house of the Lord, and the king's house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, burnt he with fire.

Job 19:11He has also kindled his wrath against me.He counts me among his adversaries.

Isaiah 29:2then I will distress Ariel, and there will be mourning and lamentation. She shall be to me as an altar hearth.

Jeremiah 9:17Thus says the Lord of hosts, "Consider, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for the skillful women, that they may come:"

Jeremiah 30:14All your lovers have forgotten you; they do not seek you: for I have wounded you with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one, for the greatness of your iniquity, because your sins were increased.

Lamentations 2:2The 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

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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