Yēlìmǐāigē 2:4

4 Tā zhāng gōng hǎoxiàng chóudí . tā zhàn zhe jǔqǐ yòushǒu , rútóng dírén jiāng yuè rén yǎnmù de , jǐn xíng shā lù . zaì Xī \'ān bǎixìng de zhàngpéng shǎng dǎo chū tāde fèn nù , xiàng huǒ yíyàng .

Yēlìmǐāigē 2:4 Meaning and Commentary

Lamentations 2:4

He hath bent his bow like an enemy
God sometimes appears as if he was an enemy to his people, when he is not, by his conduct and behaviour; by the dispensations of his providence they take him to be so, as Job did, ( Job 16:9 Job 16:10 Job 16:13 Job 16:14 ) ; he bends his bow, or treads it, for the bending or stretching the bow was done by the foot; and as the Targum,

``and threw his arrows at me:''

he stood with his right hand as an adversary;
with arrows in it, to put into his bow or with his sword drawn, as an adversary does. The Targum is,

``he stood at the right hand of Nebuchadnezzar and helped him, when he distressed his people Israel:''

and slew all [that were] pleasant to the eye;
princes and priests, husbands and wives, parents and children, young men and maids; desirable to their friends and relations, and to the commonwealth: in the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion he poured out his fury like
fire;
that is, either in the temple, or in the city of Jerusalem, or both, which were burnt with fire, as the effect of divine wrath and fury; and which itself is comparable to fire; like a burning lamp of fire, as the Targum; or rather like a burning furnace or mountain; see ( Nahum 1:6 ) .

Yēlìmǐāigē 2:4 In-Context

2 Zhǔ tūn miè Yǎgè yīqiè de zhù chù , bìng bù gù xī . tā fānù qīngfù Yóudà mín de bǎo zhàng , shǐ zhè bǎo zhàng tān dǎo zaì dì . tā rǔ mò zhè guó hé qízhōng de shǒulǐng .

3 Tā fā liè nù , bǎ Yǐsèliè de jiǎo quán rán kǎn duàn , zaì chóudí miànqián shōu huí yòushǒu . tā xiàng huǒyàn sìwéi tūn miè , jiāng Yǎgè shāo huǐ .

4 Tā zhāng gōng hǎoxiàng chóudí . tā zhàn zhe jǔqǐ yòushǒu , rútóng dírén jiāng yuè rén yǎnmù de , jǐn xíng shā lù . zaì Xī \'ān bǎixìng de zhàngpéng shǎng dǎo chū tāde fèn nù , xiàng huǒ yíyàng .

5 Zhǔ rú chóudí tūn miè Yǐsèliè hé Xī \'ān de yīqiè gōngdiàn , chāihuǐ bǎixìng de bǎo zhàng . zaì Yóudà mín zhōng jiā zēng bēi shāng kū hào .

6 Tā jiàngqǔ zìjǐ de zhàngmù , hǎoxiàng shì yuán zhōng de wō péng , huǐhuaì tāde jùhuì zhī chù . Yēhéhuá shǐ shèng jié hé ānxīrì zaì Xī \'ān dōu beì wàngjì , yòu zaì nùqì de fènhèn zhōng miǎoshì jūnwáng hé jìsī .