Lamentations 2:4

Lamentations 2:4

2 The Lord has swallowed up and has ^anot pitied
All the dwelling places of Jacob.
He has thrown down in His wrath
The strongholds of the daughter of Judah;
He has brought them down to the ground;
^bHe has profaned the kingdom and its princes.

3 He has cut off in fierce anger
Every¹ horn of Israel;
^aHe has drawn back His right hand
From before the enemy.
^bHe has blazed against Jacob like a flaming fire
Devouring all around.

4 ^aStanding like an enemy, He has bent His bow;
With His right hand, like an adversary,
He has slain ^ball who were pleasing to His eye;
On the tent of the daughter of Zion,
He has poured out His fury like fire.

5 ^aThe Lord was like an enemy.
He has swallowed up Israel,
He has swallowed up all her palaces;
^bHe has destroyed her strongholds,
And has increased mourning and lamentation
In the daughter of Judah.

6 He has done violence ^ato His tabernacle,
^bAs if it were a garden;
He has destroyed His place of assembly;
The Lord has caused
The appointed feasts and Sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion.
In His burning indignation He has ^cspurned the king and the priest.

7 The Lord has spurned His altar,
He has¹ ^aabandoned His sanctuary;
He has given up the walls of her palaces
Into the hand of the enemy.
^bThey have made a noise in the house of the Lord
As on the day of a set feast.

8 The Lord has¹ purposed to destroy
The ^awall of the daughter of Zion.
^bHe has stretched out a line;
He has not withdrawn His hand from destroying;
Therefore He has caused the rampart and wall to lament;
They languished together.

9 Her gates have sunk into the ground;
He has destroyed and ^abroken her bars.
^bHer king and her princes are among the¹ nations;
^cThe Law is no more,
And her ^dprophets find no vision from the Lord.

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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(Isaiah 63:10).

stood with . . . right hand—He took His stand so as to use His right hand as an adversary. HENDERSON makes the image to be that of an archer steadying his right hand to take aim. Not only did He withdraw His help, but also took arms against Israel.

all . . . pleasant to . . . eye— (Ezekiel 24:25). All that were conspicuous for youth, beauty, and rank.

in . . . tabernacle—the dwellings of Jerusalem.

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