Lamentations 2:1-9

1 How the Lord has covered Daughter Zion with the cloud of his anger[a] ! He has hurled down the splendor of Israel from heaven to earth; he has not remembered his footstool in the day of his anger.
2 Without pity the Lord has swallowed up all the dwellings of Jacob; in his wrath he has torn down the strongholds of Daughter Judah. He has brought her kingdom and its princes down to the ground in dishonor.
3 In fierce anger he has cut off every horn[b][c] of Israel. He has withdrawn his right hand at the approach of the enemy. He has burned in Jacob like a flaming fire that consumes everything around it.
4 Like an enemy he has strung his bow; his right hand is ready. Like a foe he has slain all who were pleasing to the eye; he has poured out his wrath like fire on the tent of Daughter Zion.
5 The Lord is like an enemy; he has swallowed up Israel. He has swallowed up all her palaces and destroyed her strongholds. He has multiplied mourning and lamentation for Daughter Judah.
6 He has laid waste his dwelling like a garden; he has destroyed his place of meeting. The LORD has made Zion forget her appointed festivals and her Sabbaths; in his fierce anger he has spurned both king and priest.
7 The Lord has rejected his altar and abandoned his sanctuary. He has given the walls of her palaces into the hands of the enemy; they have raised a shout in the house of the LORDas on the day of an appointed festival.
8 The LORD determined to tear down the wall around Daughter Zion. He stretched out a measuring line and did not withhold his hand from destroying. He made ramparts and walls lament; together they wasted away.
9 Her gates have sunk into the ground; their bars he has broken and destroyed. Her king and her princes are exiled among the nations, the law is no more, and her prophets no longer find visions from the LORD.

Cross References 36

  • 1. Lamentations 3:44
  • 2. Psalms 99:5; Psalms 132:7
  • 3. S Jeremiah 12:7
  • 4. ver 17; Lamentations 3:43
  • 5. Psalms 21:9
  • 6. Psalms 89:39-40; Micah 5:11
  • 7. S Isaiah 25:12
  • 8. Psalms 75:5,10
  • 9. Psalms 74:11
  • 10. S Isaiah 42:25; Jer 21:4-5,14
  • 11. S Job 3:23; Job 16:13; Lamentations 3:12-13
  • 12. S Psalms 48:2; Ezekiel 24:16,25
  • 13. S 2 Chronicles 34:21; Ezekiel 20:34
  • 14. Isaiah 42:25; S Jeremiah 7:20
  • 15. S Jeremiah 4:20
  • 16. S Job 13:24; Jeremiah 30:14
  • 17. ver 2
  • 18. S Isaiah 29:2
  • 19. S Jeremiah 7:20; Jeremiah 9:17-20
  • 20. 2 Chronicles 36:19
  • 21. S Jeremiah 52:13
  • 22. Lamentations 1:4; Zephaniah 3:18
  • 23. Isaiah 43:28; S Jeremiah 7:14; Lamentations 4:16; Lamentations 5:12
  • 24. S Leviticus 26:31; S Ezekiel 7:24
  • 25. Psalms 74:7-8; S Isaiah 64:11; Jeremiah 33:4-5; Ezekiel 7:21-22
  • 26. Jeremiah 21:4; Jeremiah 52:13
  • 27. ver 18
  • 28. S 2 Kings 21:13; Isaiah 34:11
  • 29. S Psalms 48:13
  • 30. Isaiah 3:26; S Jeremiah 39:8; S Jeremiah 52:14
  • 31. S Nehemiah 1:3
  • 32. S Isaiah 45:2; Hosea 11:6
  • 33. Deuteronomy 28:36; S 2 Kings 24:15; Jeremiah 16:13; Hosea 3:4
  • 34. S 2 Chronicles 15:3
  • 35. S 1 Samuel 3:1
  • 36. S Jeremiah 14:14

Footnotes 3

  • [a]. Or "How the Lord in his anger" / "has treated Daughter Zion with contempt"
  • [b]. Or "off" / "all the strength" ; or "every king"
  • [c]. "Horn" here symbolizes strength.
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