Lamentations 2:4-6

4 Like an enemy he has strung his bow; his right hand is ready. Like a foe he has slain all who were pleasing to the eye; he has poured out his wrath like fire on the tent of Daughter Zion.

5 The Lord is like an enemy; he has swallowed up Israel. He has swallowed up all her palaces and destroyed her strongholds. He has multiplied mourning and lamentation for Daughter Judah.

6 He has laid waste his dwelling like a garden; he has destroyed his place of meeting. The LORD has made Zion forget her appointed festivals and her Sabbaths; in his fierce anger he has spurned both king and priest.

Lamentations 2:4-6 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO LAMENTATIONS 2

This chapter contains another alphabet, in which the Prophet Jeremiah, or those he represents, lament the sad condition of Jerusalem; the destruction of the city and temple, and of all persons and things relative to them, and to its civil or church state; and that as being from the hand of the Lord himself, who is represented all along as the author thereof, because of their sins, La 2:1-9; and then the elders and virgins of Zion are represented as in great distress, and weeping for those desolations; which were very much owing to the false prophets, that had deceived them, La 2:10-14; and all this occasioned great rejoicing in the enemies of Zion, La 2:15-17; but sorrow of heart to Zion herself, who is called to weeping, La 2:18,19; and the chapter is concluded with an address to the Lord, to take this her sorrowful case into consideration, and show pity and compassion, La 2:20-22.

Cross References

• 1. S Job 3:23; Job 16:13; Lamentations 3:12-13
• 2. S Psalms 48:2; Ezekiel 24:16,25
• 3. S 2 Chronicles 34:21; Ezekiel 20:34
• 4. Isaiah 42:25; S Jeremiah 7:20
• 5. S Jeremiah 4:20
• 6. S Job 13:24; Jeremiah 30:14
• 7. ver 2
• 8. S Isaiah 29:2
• 9. S Jeremiah 7:20; Jeremiah 9:17-20
• 10. 2 Chronicles 36:19
• 11. S Jeremiah 52:13
• 12. Lamentations 1:4; Zephaniah 3:18
• 13. Isaiah 43:28; S Jeremiah 7:14; Lamentations 4:16; Lamentations 5:12