Lamentaciones 2:8

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.

Lamentaciones 2:8 Meaning and Commentary

Lamentations 2:8

The Lord hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of
Zion
Either the wall of the city, as Aben Ezra; or the wall that encompassed the temple, and all the outward courts of it, as Dr. Lightfoot ^F19 thinks; this the Lord had determined to destroy, and according to his purposes did destroy it, or suffer it to be demolished; and so all were laid open for the enemy to enter: he hath stretched out a line;
a line of destruction, to mark out how far the destruction should go, and bow much should be laid in ruins; all being as exactly done, according to the purpose and counsel of God, as if it was done by line and rule; see ( Isaiah 34:11 ) ; he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying;
till he made a full end of the city and temple, as he first designed: therefore he made the rampart and the wall to lament:
the "chel" and the wall; all that space between the courts of the temple and the wall that surrounded it was called the "chel"; and so the Targum, the circumference or enclosure; and these were laid waste together, and so said to lament: according to others they were two walls, a wall the son of a wall, as Jarchi interprets it; an outward and an inward wall, one higher than another; a low wall over against a high wall; which was as a rampart or bulwark, for the strength and support of it: they languished together;
or fell together, as persons in a fit faint away and full to the ground.

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FOOTNOTES:

F19 Prospect of the Temple, c. 17. p. 1089.

Lamentaciones 2:8 In-Context

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.

10 En tierra están sentados, en silencio, los ancianos de la hija de Sion. Han echado polvo sobre sus cabezas, se han ceñido de cilicio. Han inclinado a tierra sus cabezas las vírgenes de Jerusalén.