Lamentations 2:6

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden: he hath destroyed his places of the assembly: the LORD hath caused the solemn feasts and sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion, and hath despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest.

He hath violently

As if

Isaiah 1:8

Caused

Lamentations 1:4

Zephaniah 3:18

The king

Malachi 2:9

General references

Isaiah 64:10

Lamentations 3:3

Ezekiel 9:7

Bible References

He hath violently

Why have You broken down its hedges, so that all those who pass by the way pluck it?

And now I will tell you what I will do to My vineyard; I will take away its hedge, and it shall be eaten up; and break down its wall, and it shall be trampled down;

The people of Your holiness have possessed it but a little while; our enemies have trampled Your sanctuary.

The house of our holiness and our beauty, where our fathers praised You, has become a burning of fire; and all our pleasant things are laid waste.

As if

And the daughter of Zion is left a booth in a vineyard, like a hut in a garden of cucumbers, like a besieged city.

Caused

The roads of Zion mourn without any going to the appointed feasts. All her gates are deserted; her priests sigh; her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitterness.

I will gather the afflicted ones from the appointed place; they were from you, a lifting up of reproach over her.

The king

The face of Jehovah has shared them out; He will no longer look on them; they did not respect the persons of the priests; they did not favor the elders.

Rulers were hanged by the hand; the faces of elders were not honored.

And I will defile rulers of the sanctuary, and will give Jacob to the curse, and Israel to reproaches.

And he blinded the eyes of Zedekiah. And the king of Babylon bound him in chains, and carried him to Babylon, and put him in prison till the day of his death.

And the king who is among them shall carry burdens on his shoulder in the dark, and shall go out. They shall dig through the wall to carry out by it. He shall hide his face so that he does not see the ground with his eye.

And he has despised the oath by breaking the covenant. And, behold, he had given his hand, and has done all these, he shall not escape.

Therefore I have also made you despised and low before all the people, just as you have not kept My ways but are lifting up faces in the law.

General references

Your holy cities are a wilderness; Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem is a ruin.

Surely He turned against me; He turns His hand all the day.

And He said to them, Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain. Go out! And they went out and killed in the city.