Lamentations 2:1-6

The Lord Has Destroyed Without Pity

1 How the Lord in his anger has set the daughter of Zion 1under a cloud! 2He has cast down from heaven to earth the splendor of Israel; he has not remembered 3his footstool in the day of his anger.
2 The Lord 4has swallowed up 5without mercy all the habitations of Jacob; in his wrath 6he has broken down the strongholds of the daughter of Judah; he has brought 7down to the ground 8in dishonor the kingdom 9and its rulers.
3 He has cut down in 10fierce anger all 11the might of Israel; 12he has withdrawn from them his right hand in the face of the enemy; 13he has burned like a flaming fire in Jacob, consuming all around.
4 14He has bent his bow like an enemy, with his right hand set 15like a foe; and he has killed all who were delightful in our eyes in the tent of the daughter of Zion; he has poured out his fury like fire.
5 16The Lord has become like an enemy; 17he has swallowed up Israel; 18he has swallowed up all its palaces; he has laid in ruins its strongholds, and he has multiplied in the daughter of Judah 19mourning and lamentation.
6 He has laid waste his booth like a garden, laid in ruins 20his meeting place; 21the LORD has made Zion forget festival and 22Sabbath, and in his fierce indignation has spurned king and priest.

Cross References 22

  • 1. [Lamentations 3:44]
  • 2. [Matthew 11:23]; See Isaiah 14:15
  • 3. 1 Chronicles 28:2
  • 4. ver. 16; [Psalms 35:25; Psalms 56:2; Ezekiel 36:3]
  • 5. ver. 17, 21; Lamentations 3:43; [Ezekiel 9:5, 10]
  • 6. Psalms 89:40
  • 7. Psalms 74:7
  • 8. Psalms 74:7
  • 9. Isaiah 43:28
  • 10. See Jeremiah 12:13
  • 11. 1 Samuel 2:1
  • 12. Psalms 74:11
  • 13. Psalms 79:5; Psalms 89:46
  • 14. Lamentations 3:12
  • 15. See Jeremiah 30:14
  • 16. [See ver. 4 above]
  • 17. ver. 16; [Psalms 35:25; Psalms 56:2; Ezekiel 36:3]
  • 18. [2 Kings 25:9]
  • 19. Isaiah 29:2
  • 20. Lamentations 1:4; Isaiah 1:13; Zephaniah 3:18
  • 21. Lamentations 1:4; Isaiah 1:13; Zephaniah 3:18
  • 22. Isaiah 1:13
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