Lamentaciones 2:4

4 Tensa el arco contra su pueblo
como si él fuera su enemigo.
Utiliza su fuerza contra ellos
para matar a sus mejores jóvenes.
Su furia se derrama como fuego
sobre la bella Jerusalén.

Lamentaciones 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 ) .

Lamentaciones 2:4 In-Context

2 El Señor ha destruido sin misericordia
todas las casas en Israel.
En su enojo derribó
las murallas protectoras de la bella Jerusalén.
Las derrumbó hasta el suelo
y deshonró al reino y a sus gobernantes.

3 Toda la fuerza de Israel
desaparece ante su ira feroz.
El Señor ha retirado su protección
durante el ataque del enemigo.
Él consume toda la tierra de Israel
como un fuego ardiente.

4 Tensa el arco contra su pueblo
como si él fuera su enemigo.
Utiliza su fuerza contra ellos
para matar a sus mejores jóvenes.
Su furia se derrama como fuego
sobre la bella Jerusalén.

5 Así es, el Señor venció a Israel
como lo hace un enemigo.
Destruyó sus palacios
y demolió sus fortalezas.
Causó dolor y llanto interminable
sobre la bella Jerusalén.

6 Derribó su templo
como si fuera apenas una choza en el jardín.
El Señor
ha borrado todo recuerdo
de los festivales sagrados y los días de descanso.
Ante su ira feroz
reyes y sacerdotes caen juntos.