Lamentations 2:5

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

The Lord was as an enemy: he hath swallowed up Israel, he hath swallowed up all her palaces: he hath destroyed his strong holds, and hath increased in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.

Was

Lamentations 2:4

Jeremiah 15:1

Jeremiah 30:14

He hath swallowed up israel

Mourning

Ezekiel 2:10

General references

Isaiah 64:10

Lamentations 3:3

Ezekiel 9:7

Bible References

Was

{Daleth} He hath bent his bow like an enemy, he hath fastened his righthand as an adversary: and everything that was pleasant to see, he hath smitten it down. He hath poured out his wrath like a fire, into the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion.

Then spake the LORD unto me, and said, "Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet have I no heart to this people. Drive them away, that they may go out of my sight.

All thy lovers have forgotten thee, and care nothing for thee. For I have given thee a cruel stroke, and chastened thee roughly: and that for the multitude of thy misdeeds, for thy sins have had the overhand.

He hath swallowed up israel

{Beth} The LORD hath cast down all the glory of Jacob without any favour: all the strong places of the daughter Judah hath he broken in his wrath, and thrown them down to the ground: her kingdom and her princes hath he suspended.

and burnt the house of the LORD and the king's house and all the houses of Jerusalem, and all the great houses burnt he with fire.

But they mocked the messengers of God and despised their words and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD so arose against his people that it was past remedy.

and burnt up the house of the LORD. He burnt up also the king's palace, all the houses, and all the gorgeous buildings in Jerusalem.

Mourning

and the hand opened it before me, and it was written within and without, full of careful mournings: alas, and woe.

General references

The cities of thy Sanctuary lie waste: Zion is a wilderness, and Jerusalem a desert.

Against me only he turneth his hand, and layeth it ever upon me.

for he had said unto them, "When ye have defiled the temple, and filled the court with the slain, then go your way forth." So they went out, and slew down through the city.