Lamentations 2:6

He 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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In The King James Version

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 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

7The Lord has rejected his altar, he has disowned his sanctuary, andhas given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces.They have made a shout in the house of the Lord, as in the day of a solemn assembly.HET

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Cross References

Psalms 74:7They have burned your sanctuary to the ground.They have profaned the dwelling place of your Name.

Psalms 89:40You have broken down all his hedges.You have brought his strongholds to ruin.

Isaiah 1:13Bring no more vain offerings.Incense is an abomination to me;new moons, Sabbaths, and convocations:I can't bear with evil assemblies.

Isaiah 5:6I will lay it a wasteland.It won't be pruned nor hoed,but it will grow briers and thorns.I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain on it."

Isaiah 63:18Your holy people possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down your sanctuary.

Jeremiah 42:18For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: 'As my anger and my wrath has been poured forth on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so shall my wrath be poured forth on you, when you shall enter into Egypt; and you shall be an object of horror, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach; and you shall see this place no more.'

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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