Lamentations 2:4

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

He hath bent his bow like an enemy: he stood with his right hand as an adversary, and slew all that were pleasant to the eye in the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion: he poured out his fury like fire.

Bent

Jeremiah 30:14

That were pleasant to the eye

Ezekiel 24:25

He poured

General references

Isaiah 64:10

Lamentations 3:3

Ezekiel 9:7

Bible References

Bent

The Lord has become like an enemy he has devoured Israel. He has devoured all of her palaces, destroying her fortresses. He filled cherished Judah with mourning and lament.

He truly turned his hand against me, again and again, all day long.

"The arrows of the Almighty have pierced me; my spirit absorbs their poison; God's terrors have been arranged just for me!

"He tore me apart when I was at ease; grabbing me by my neck, he shook me to pieces then he really made me his target.

Yet they rebelled and grieved his Holy Spirit; so he changed and became their enemy, and he himself fought against them.

Because of my anger, wrath, and great fury, I'll fight against you myself with an outstretched hand and a strong arm.

All your lovers have forgotten you; they don't seek you. Indeed, I've struck you down with the blow of an enemy, with the punishment of a cruel foe because your wickedness is great, and your sins are numerous.

That were pleasant to the eye

"And now, Son of Man, on the day that I take their strength, joy, and glory from them, those whom they love to watch, the focus of their affection their sons and daughters

He poured

How tarnished the gold has become, the finest gold debased! Sacred stones have been scattered at every street corner.

"Go ask the LORD for me and for those who survive in Israel and in Judah about the words that we've read in this book that we found, because the wrath of the LORD that we deserve to have poured out on us is very great, since our ancestors haven't obeyed the command from the LORD that required us to do everything that is written in this book."

so he drenched him with the heat that is his anger, the violence of war. It enveloped him in flames, but still he had no insight. It burned him up, but he didn't take it to heart."

"Awake, Awake! Stand up, Jerusalem, you who have drunk from the LORD's hand from the cup that is his anger. You have drunk to the dregs the cup that makes you stagger, and have drained it.

I trampled people in my anger; in my wrath I made them drunk and I poured out their lifeblood on the ground."

Circumcise yourselves to the LORD and remove the foreskin of your heart, you men of Judah and residents of Jerusalem, or else my wrath will break out like fire and burn with no one to put it out, because of your evil deeds."

Therefore, this is what the Lord GOD says: "I'm about to pour out my anger and my wrath on this place, on people and animals, on the trees of the field, and on the fruit of the ground. It will burn, and it won't be put out."

Because of my anger, wrath, and great fury, I'll fight against you myself with an outstretched hand and a strong arm.

Perhaps their pleas for help will come to the LORD's attention, and each of them will turn from his evil lifestyle in light of the great anger and wrath that the LORD has declared against this people."

"Only then will I stop being angry my burning in anger. Then they'll know that I've spoken out in my arduous anger. Only then will my burning anger against them be exhausted.

The one who lives far away will die by pestilence and the one who is near will die violently. The survivors and their surveillance details will die by famine as I exhaust my rage against them.

like melting silver at the center of a furnace. When you've been melted from the center out, then you'll know that I am the LORD. I'll pour out my anger on you.'"

So I poured out my anger on them because of all the bloodshed throughout the land and because they had defiled it with their idolatry.

A jealous God, the LORD avenges. The LORD avenges; The Lord is an angry husband. The LORD takes vengeance on his enemies, reserving anger for his adversaries.

General references

Your holy cities have become a desert; Zion has become like a desert, Jerusalem a desolation.

He truly turned his hand against me, again and again, all day long.

"Desecrate my Temple," he told them, "and fill its courtyard with the dead!" So they went out and began striking down people throughout the city.