Lamentations 2:14-22

14 ¹Your prophets have seen for you false and deceptive visions; ²they have not exposed your iniquity to ³restore your fortunes, ⁴but have seen for you ⁵oracles that are false and misleading.

15 All who pass along the way clap their hands at you; ⁶they hiss and wag their heads at the daughter of Jerusalem: "Is this the city that was called ⁷the perfection of beauty, ⁸the joy of all the earth?"

16 ⁹All your enemies rail against you; they hiss, they gnash their teeth, they cry: "We ¹⁰have swallowed her! Ah, this is the day we longed for; now we have it; ¹¹we see it!"

17 The LORD has done what he purposed; he has carried out ¹²his word, which he commanded ¹³long ago; ¹⁴he has thrown down ¹⁵without pity; ¹⁶he has made the enemy rejoice over you and exalted the ¹⁷might of your foes.

18 Their heart cried to the Lord. O ¹⁸wall of the daughter of Zion, ¹⁹let tears stream down like a torrent ²⁰day and night! ²¹Give yourself no rest, ²²your eyes no respite!

19 "Arise, ²³cry out in the night, at the beginning of the night watches! ²⁴Pour out your heart like water before the presence of the Lord! ²⁵Lift your hands to him for the lives of your children, ²⁶who faint for hunger at the head of every street."

20 Look, O LORD, and see! ²⁷With whom have you dealt thus? ²⁸Should women eat the fruit of their womb, the children of ²⁹their tender care? Should ³⁰priest and prophet be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?

21 In the dust of the streets ³¹lie the young and the old; ³²my young women and my young men have fallen by the sword; ³³you have killed them in the day of your anger, slaughtering ³⁴without pity.

22 You summoned as if to ³⁵a festival day ³⁶my terrors on every side, ³⁷and on the day of the anger of the LORD no one escaped or survived; ³⁸those whom I held and raised my enemy destroyed.

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Lamentations 2:14-22 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO LAMENTATIONS 2

This chapter contains another alphabet, in which the Prophet Jeremiah, or those he represents, lament the sad condition of Jerusalem; the destruction of the city and temple, and of all persons and things relative to them, and to its civil or church state; and that as being from the hand of the Lord himself, who is represented all along as the author thereof, because of their sins, La 2:1-9; and then the elders and virgins of Zion are represented as in great distress, and weeping for those desolations; which were very much owing to the false prophets, that had deceived them, La 2:10-14; and all this occasioned great rejoicing in the enemies of Zion, La 2:15-17; but sorrow of heart to Zion herself, who is called to weeping, La 2:18,19; and the chapter is concluded with an address to the Lord, to take this her sorrowful case into consideration, and show pity and compassion, La 2:20-22.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

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1. See Jeremiah 5:31
2. [Isaiah 58:1]
3. See Jeremiah 30:3
4. See Jeremiah 5:31
5. [Jeremiah 23:33, 34]
6. See 2 Chronicles 29:8
7. Psalms 48:2; Ezekiel 16:14
8. Psalms 48:2; Ezekiel 16:14
9. Lamentations 3:46; [Job 16:9, 10]
10. See ver. 2
11. [Psalms 35:21]
12. See Leviticus 26:14-45; Deuteronomy 28:15-68
13. Lamentations 1:7; Jeremiah 46:26
14. See ver. 2
15. ver. 2, 21
16. [Psalms 38:16; Psalms 89:42]
17. [ver. 3]
18. ver. 8
19. See ver. 11
20. Psalms 32:4; Psalms 42:3
21. Psalms 77:2
22. Psalms 17:8
23. Psalms 119:147, 148
24. Psalms 62:8; [1 Samuel 7:6]
25. [1 Timothy 2:8]
26. See ver. 11, 12
27. Lamentations 1:22
28. Lamentations 4:10; See Jeremiah 19:9
29. ver. 22
30. [Lamentations 4:13]
31. [2 Chronicles 36:17]
32. [2 Chronicles 36:17]
33. Lamentations 3:43
34. ver. 2, 17
35. [ver. 6]
36. See Jeremiah 6:25
37. [Jeremiah 42:17; Jeremiah 44:14]
38. ver. 20

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Lamentations 2:14-22

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Lamentations 2:14-22 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO LAMENTATIONS 2

Cross References 38