Lamentaciones 2:4

Dálet

4 Como enemigo, tensó el arco;lista estaba su mano derecha.Como enemigo, eliminóa nuestros seres queridos.Como fuego, derramó su irasobre las tiendas de la bella Sión.

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 Sin compasión el Señor ha destruidotodas las moradas de Jacob;en su furor ha derribadolos baluartes de la bella Judáy ha puesto su honra por los suelosal derrocar a su rey y a sus príncipes.

3 Dio rienda suelta a su furory deshizo todo el poder de Israel.Nos vimos frente al enemigo,y el Señor nos negó su ayuda.Ardió en Jacob como un fuego encendidoque consumía cuanto le rodeaba.

4 Como enemigo, tensó el arco;lista estaba su mano derecha.Como enemigo, eliminóa nuestros seres queridos.Como fuego, derramó su irasobre las tiendas de la bella Sión.

5 El Señor se porta como enemigo:ha destruido a Israel.Ha destruido todos sus palaciosy derribado sus baluartes.Ha multiplicado el luto y los lamentospor la bella Judá.

6 Ha desolado su morada como a un jardín;ha derribado su lugar de reunión.El SEÑOR ha hecho que Sión olvidesus fiestas solemnes y sus sábados;se desató su furia contra el reyy dejó de lado al sacerdote.