Lamentations 4:11

11 The LORD let loose his fury; he poured out his fierce anger. He started a fire in Zion; it licked up its foundations.

Lamentations 4:11 Meaning and Commentary

Lamentations 4:11

The Lord hath accomplished his fury
Which rose up in his mind, and which he purposed in himself to bring upon the sinful people of the Jews: he hath poured out his fierce anger;
the vials of his wrath in great abundance, even all he meant to pour out upon them: and hath kindled a fire in Zion, and it hath devoured the foundations
thereof:
not in the strong hold of Zion only, but in the whole city of Jerusalem, which was set on fire by the Chaldeans, as instruments, according to the will of God; and which not only consumed the houses of it, but even the foundations of them; so that it looked as if there was no hope of its ever being rebuilt. Aben Ezra interprets this fire of the famine.

Lamentations 4:11 In-Context

9 Things were better for those stabbed by the sword than for those stabbed by famine— those who bled away, pierced, lacking food from the field.

10 The hands of loving women boiled their own children to become their food during the destruction of the daughter of my people.

11 The LORD let loose his fury; he poured out his fierce anger. He started a fire in Zion; it licked up its foundations.

12 The earth's rulers didn't believe it—neither did any who inhabit the world— that either enemy or adversary could enter Jerusalem's gates.

13 It was because of her prophets' sins, her priests' iniquities, those who shed righteous blood in the middle of the city.