Lamentaciones 2:7

7 El SEÑOR ha rechazado su altar, ha despreciado su santuario; ha entregado en manos del enemigo los muros de sus palacios. Gritos se han dado en la casa del SEÑOR como en día de fiesta solemne.

Lamentaciones 2:7 Meaning and Commentary

Lamentations 2:7

The Lord hath cast off his altar
Whether of incense, or of burnt offerings; the sacrifices of which used to be acceptable to him; but now the altar being cast down and demolished, there were no more offerings; nor did he show any desire of them, but the reverse: he hath abhorred his sanctuary;
the temple; by suffering it to be profaned, pulled down, and burnt, it looked as if he had an abhorrence of it, and the service in it; as he had, as it was performed without faith in Christ, love to him, or any view to his glory; see ( Isaiah 1:13 Isaiah 1:14 ) ; he hath given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces;
both the walls of the sanctuary, and the walls of the houses of the kin, and princes; especially thee former are meant, both by what goes before and follows: they have made a noise in the house of the Lord, as in the day of a
solemn feast;
that is the enemy, the Chaldeans, made a noise in the temple, blaspheming God, that had dwelt in it; insulting over the people of God, that had worshipped there; rejoicing in their victories over them; singing their "paeans" to their gods, and other profane songs; indulging themselves in revelling and rioting; making as great a noise with their shouts and songs as the priests, Levites, and people of Israel did, when they sung the songs of Zion on a festival day. The Targum is,

``as the voice of the people of the house of Israel, that prayed in the midst of it in the day of the passover.''

Lamentaciones 2:7 In-Context

5 Se ha vuelto el Señor como enemigo: ha devorado a Israel, ha devorado todos sus palacios, ha destruido sus fortalezas y ha multiplicado en la hija de Judá el lamento y el duelo.

6 Y ha tratado con violencia a su tabernáculo, como a cabaña de huerto; ha destruido su lugar de reunión. El SEÑOR ha hecho olvidar en Sion la fiesta solemne y el día de reposo, y ha rechazado en el furor de su ira al rey y al sacerdote.

7 El SEÑOR ha rechazado su altar, ha despreciado su santuario; ha entregado en manos del enemigo los muros de sus palacios. Gritos se han dado en la casa del SEÑOR como en día de fiesta solemne.

8 El SEÑOR determinó destruir la muralla de la hija de Sion; ha extendido el cordel, no ha retraído su mano de destruir, y ha hecho que se lamenten el antemuro y el muro; a una desfallecen.

9 Se han hundido en la tierra sus puertas, El ha destruido y quebrado sus cerrojos. Su rey y sus príncipes están entre las naciones; ya no hay ley; tampoco sus profetas hallan visión del SEÑOR.