Lamentations 2
2
The Lord Has Destroyed Without Pity
1How the Lord in his anger
has set the daughter of Zion #[ch. 3:44] under a cloud!
# [Matt. 11:23]; See Isa. 14:15 He has cast down from heaven to earth
the splendor of Israel;
he has not remembered #1 Chr. 28:2his footstool
in the day of his anger.
2The Lord #ver. 16; [Ps. 35:25; 56:2; Ezek. 36:3] has swallowed up #ver. 17, 21; ch. 3:43; [Ezek. 9:5, 10] without mercy
all the habitations of Jacob;
in his wrath #Ps. 89:40 he has broken down
the strongholds of the daughter of Judah;
he has brought #Ps. 74:7 down to the ground #Ps. 74:7 in dishonor
the kingdom #Isa. 43:28and its rulers.
3He has cut down in #See Jer. 12:13 fierce anger
all #1 Sam. 2:1 the might of Israel;
#
Ps. 74:11 he has withdrawn from them his right hand
in the face of the enemy;
#
Ps. 79:5; 89:46 he has burned like a flaming fire in Jacob,
consuming all around.
4 # ch. 3:12 He has bent his bow like an enemy,
with his right hand set #See Jer. 30:14like a foe;
and he has killed all who were delightful in our eyes
in the tent of the daughter of Zion;
he has poured out his fury like fire.
5 # [See ver. 4 above] The Lord has become like an enemy;
# ver. 16; [Ps. 35:25; 56:2; Ezek. 36:3] he has swallowed up Israel;
# [2 Kgs. 25:9] he has swallowed up all its palaces;
he has laid in ruins its strongholds,
and he has multiplied in the daughter of Judah
#
Isa. 29:2
mourning and lamentation.
6He has laid waste his booth like a garden,
laid in ruins #ch. 1:4; Isa. 1:13; Zeph. 3:18 his meeting place;
# ch. 1:4; Isa. 1:13; Zeph. 3:18 the Lord has made Zion forget
festival and #Isa. 1:13Sabbath,
and in his fierce indignation has spurned king and priest.
7 # [Ps. 89:38] The Lord has scorned his altar,
# [Ezek. 24:21] disowned his sanctuary;
#
Deut. 32:30 he has delivered into the hand of the enemy
the walls of her palaces;
#
Ps. 74:4
they raised a clamor in the house of the Lord
as on the day of festival.
8 # [Jer. 5:10] The Lord determined to lay in ruins
# ver. 18 the wall of the daughter of Zion;
# See 2 Kgs. 21:13 he stretched out the measuring line;
he did not restrain his hand from destroying;
#
Jer. 14:2
he caused rampart and wall to lament;
#
Jer. 14:2
they languished together.
9Her gates have sunk into the ground;
#
Jer. 51:30; Nah. 3:13 he has ruined #Jer. 51:30; Nah. 3:13 and broken her bars;
# [Hos. 3:4] her king and princes are among the nations;
the law is no more,
and #Ps. 74:9her prophets find
no vision from the Lord.
10The elders of the daughter of Zion
# ch. 1:1; 3:28; Isa. 3:26 sit on the ground #Ezek. 3:15 in silence;
# See Josh. 7:6 they have thrown dust on their heads
and #Jer. 48:37; Ezek. 7:18; Amos 8:10; See Jer. 4:8put on sackcloth;
the young women of Jerusalem
have bowed their heads to the ground.
11 # [ver. 18; ch. 5:17; Ps. 6:7] My eyes are spent with weeping;
# See ch. 1:20 my stomach churns;
# [Job 16:13] my bile is poured out to the ground
# ch. 3:48 because of the destruction of the daughter of my people,
# [ch. 4:4; Jer. 44:7] because infants and babies #ver. 19; [Isa. 51:20]faint
in the streets of the city.
12They cry to their mothers,
# See ch. 1:11 “Where is bread and wine?”
# [See ver. 11 above] as they faint like a wounded man
in the streets of the city,
as their life is poured out
on their mothers’ bosom.
13What can I say for you, #[ch. 1:12] to what compare you,
O daughter of Jerusalem?
# [ch. 1:12] What can I liken to you, that I may comfort you,
O virgin daughter of Zion?
#
2 Sam. 5:20; [Ezek. 26:3] For your ruin is vast as the sea;
who can heal you?
14 # See Jer. 5:31 Your prophets have seen for you
false and deceptive visions;
# [Isa. 58:1] they have not exposed your iniquity
to #See Jer. 30:3 restore your fortunes,
# See Jer. 5:31 but have seen for you #[Jer. 23:33, 34]oracles
that are false and misleading.
15All who pass along the way
clap their hands at you;
# See 2 Chr. 29:8 they hiss and wag their heads
at the daughter of Jerusalem:
“Is this the city that was called
#
Ps. 48:2; Ezek. 16:14 the perfection of beauty,
#
Ps. 48:2; Ezek. 16:14 the joy of all the earth?”
16 # ch. 3:46; [Job 16:9, 10] All your enemies
rail against you;
they hiss, they gnash their teeth,
they cry: “We #See ver. 2 have swallowed her!
Ah, this is the day we longed for;
now we have it; #[Ps. 35:21]we see it!”
17The Lord has done what he purposed;
he has carried out #See Lev. 26:14-45; Deut. 28:15-68 his word,
which he commanded #ch. 1:7; Jer. 46:26 long ago;
# See ver. 2 he has thrown down #ver. 2, 21 without pity;
# [Ps. 38:16; 89:42] he has made the enemy rejoice over you
and exalted the #[ver. 3]might of your foes.
18Their heart cried to the Lord.
O #ver. 8 wall of the daughter of Zion,
# See ver. 11 let tears stream down like a torrent
#
Ps. 32:4; 42:3 day and night!
#
Ps. 77:2 Give yourself no rest,
#
Ps. 17:8
your eyes no respite!
19“Arise, #Ps. 119:147, 148 cry out in the night,
at the beginning of the night watches!
#
Ps. 62:8; [1 Sam. 7:6] Pour out your heart like water
before the presence of the Lord!
# [1 Tim. 2:8] Lift your hands to him
for the lives of your children,
# See ver. 11, 12 who faint for hunger
at the head of every street.”
20Look, O Lord, and see!
# ch. 1:22 With whom have you dealt thus?
# ch. 4:10; See Jer. 19:9 Should women eat the fruit of their womb,
the children of #ver. 22 their tender care?
Should #[ch. 4:13]priest and prophet be killed
in the sanctuary of the Lord?
21In the dust of the streets
# [2 Chr. 36:17] lie the young and the old;
# [2 Chr. 36:17] my young women and my young men
have fallen by the sword;
# ch. 3:43 you have killed them in the day of your anger,
slaughtering #ver. 2, 17without pity.
22You summoned as if to #[ver. 6] a festival day
# See Jer. 6:25 my terrors on every side,
# [Jer. 42:17; 44:14] and on the day of the anger of the Lord
no one escaped or survived;
# ver. 20 those whom I held and raised
my enemy destroyed.
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Ěḵah (Lamentations) 2
2
1How יהוה in His displeasure Has covered the daughter of Tsiyon with a cloud! He has cast down from the heavens to the earth The comeliness of Yisra’ĕl, And has not remembered His footstool in the day of His displeasure.
2יהוה has swallowed up, without compassion, All the pastures of Ya‛aqoḇ. In His wrath He has thrown down The strongholds of the daughter of Yehuḏah. He has brought them down to the ground. He has profaned the reign and its rulers.
3In the heat of displeasure He has cut off every horn of Yisra’ĕl. He has withdrawn His right hand from before the enemy. And He burns against Ya‛aqoḇ Like a flaming fire, consuming all around.
4He has bent His bow like an enemy. He has set His right hand like an adversary. And He kills all who delighted the eye. In the tent of the daughter of Tsiyon, He has poured out His wrath like fire.
5יהוה has been like an enemy. He has swallowed up Yisra’ĕl, He has swallowed up all her palaces, He has destroyed her strongholds. And He increases mourning and lamentation In the daughter of Yehuḏah.
6He has demolished His booth like a garden, He has destroyed His place of meeting. יהוה has made the appointed times#Or festivals. and Sabbaths To be forgotten in Tsiyon, And despises sovereign and priest In His raging displeasure.
7יהוה has cast off His slaughter-place, He has rejected His set-apart place, He has delivered the walls of her palaces Into the hand of the enemy. They have made a noise in the House of יהוה As on the day of an appointed time.
8יהוה has planned to destroy The wall of the daughter of Tsiyon. He has stretched out a line. He has not turned back His hand from destroying. And He has made the rampart and wall to lament; Together they have languished.
9Her gates have sunk into the ground. He has destroyed and broken her bars. Her sovereign and her rulers are among the nations. The Torah is no more, And her prophets have found no vision from יהוה.
10The elders of the daughter of Tsiyon Sit on the ground, are silent. They have thrown dust on their heads, They have girded themselves with sackcloth. The maidens of Yerushalayim Have let their heads hang to the ground.
11My eyes are spent with tears, My inward parts ferment, My bile has been poured on the ground Because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, As children and the infants languish In the streets of the city.
12They say to their mothers, “Where is grain and wine?” As they languish like the wounded In the streets of the city, As their life is poured out in their mothers’ bosom.
13How shall I admonish you, To what shall I compare you, O daughter of Yerushalayim? To what shall I liken you to comfort you, O maiden daughter of Tsiyon? For your breach is as great as the sea. Who shall heal you?
14Your prophets have seen Falsehood and folly for you, And have not shown you your crookedness, To turn back your captivity. But their visions for you Are false and misleading messages.
15All who pass by have clapped their hands at you. They have whistled, And they shake their heads At the daughter of Yerushalayim, “Is this the city that is called ‘The perfection of loveliness, The joy of all the earth’?”
16All your enemies have opened Their mouth against you; They have whistled and they gnash their teeth. They say, “We have swallowed her up! This is certainly the day we waited for; We have found it, we have seen it.”
17יהוה has done what He planned, He has filled His word Which He commanded in days of old. He has torn down, without compassion, And He has let your enemy rejoice over you. He has exalted the horn of your adversaries.
18Their heart cried out to יהוה, “O wall of the daughter of Tsiyon, Let tears run down like a river day and night. Give yourself no numbness, Let your eyes have no rest.
19“Arise, cry out in the night, At the beginning of the watches, Pour out your heart like water Before the face of יהוה. Lift your hands toward Him For the life of your young children, Who languish from hunger At the head of every street.
20“See, O יהוה, and look attentively To whom have You done thus. Should the women eat their offspring, Infants of a hand breadth? Should the priest and prophet be killed In the set-apart place of יהוה?
21“Young and old lie on the ground in the streets. My maidens and my young men have fallen by the sword. You have killed them in the day of Your displeasure, You have slaughtered without compassion.
22“Would You proclaim, as in a day of appointed time, The fears that surround me? And no one escaped or survived In the day of the displeasure of יהוה. Those whom I have nursed and brought up My enemy has destroyed.”
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