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Klagelieder 2:4

Listen to Klagelieder 2:4
4 Seinen Bogen hat er gespannt wie ein Feind, hat mit seiner Rechten sich hingestellt wie ein Gegner und alle Lust der Augen getötet; in das Zelt der Tochter Zion hat er seinen Grimm ausgegossen wie Feuer.

Klagelieder 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 ) .
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Klagelieder 2:4 In-Context

2 Der Herr hat schonungslos vernichtet alle Wohnstätten Jakobs; er hat in seinem Grimme niedergerissen die Festen der Tochter Juda; zu Boden geworfen, entweiht hat er das Königtum und seine Fürsten.
3 In Zornesglut hat er abgehauen jedes Horn Israels; er hat seine Rechte zurückgezogen vor dem Feinde, und hat Jakob in Brand gesteckt wie ein flammendes Feuer, das ringsum frißt.
4 Seinen Bogen hat er gespannt wie ein Feind, hat mit seiner Rechten sich hingestellt wie ein Gegner und alle Lust der Augen getötet; in das Zelt der Tochter Zion hat er seinen Grimm ausgegossen wie Feuer.
5 Der Herr ist wie ein Feind geworden, er hat Israel vernichtet, vernichtet alle ihre Paläste, seine Festen zerstört; und bei der Tochter Juda hat er Seufzen und Stöhnen gemehrt.
6 Und er hat sein Gehege zerwühlt wie einen Garten, hat den Ort seiner Festversammlung zerstört; Jehova machte in Zion Fest und Sabbath vergessen; und in seines Zornes Grimm verschmähte er König und Priester.
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