Lamentations 2:5 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

⁵ 3 Mem. To what shall I compare thee? or to what shall I liken thee, O daughter of Jerusalem? to what shall I equal thee, that I may comfort thee, O virgin daughter of Sion? for great as the sea is thy destruction: who shall heal thee?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ The Lord has become like an enemy; He has destroyed Israel. He has destroyed all its palaces, has laid in ruins its strongholds, and has multiplied in the Daughter of Judah groaning and moaning and lamentation.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ The Lord is become as an enemy, he hath swallowed up Israel; He hath swallowed up all her palaces, he hath destroyed his strongholds; And he hath multiplied in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.

Common English Bible

⁵ My Lord has become like an enemy. He devoured Israel; he devoured all her palaces; he made ruins of her city walls. In Daughter Judah he multiplied mourning along with more mourning!

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ HE. The Lord has become like an enemy. He has thrown down Israel. He has thrown down all of his defenses. He has torn apart his fortifications. And he has filled the daughter of Judah with humbled men and humbled women.

Lamentations 2:5 Cross References

2 Kings 25:9

4 They took away also the pots of brass, and the mazers, and the forks, and the cups, and the mortars, and all the vessels of brass with which they ministered.

Job 13:24

Man born of a woman, living for a short time, is filled with many miseries.

Job 19:11

6 I called my servant, and he gave me no answer, I entreated him with my own mouth.

Psalm 89:40

7 Remember what my substance is for hast thou made all the children of men in vain?

Psalm 89:41

8 Who is the man that shall live, and not see death: that shall deliver his soul from the hand of hell?

Isaiah 29:2

0 For the Lord hath mingled for you the spirit of a deep sleep, he will shut up your eyes, he will cover your prophets and princes, that see visions.

Isaiah 63:10

8 They have possessed thy holy people as nothing: our enemies have trodden down thy sanctuary.

Jeremiah 15:1

She that hath borne seven is become weak, her soul hath fainted away: her sun is gone down, while it was yet day: she is confounded, and ashamed: and the residue of them I will give up to the sword in the sight of their enemies, saith the Lord.

Jeremiah 21:4

2 O house of David, this saith the Lord: Judge ye judgement in the morning, and deliver him that is oppressed by violence out of the hand of the oppressor: lest my indignation go forth like a fire, and be kindled, and there be none to quench it, because of the evil of your ways.

Jeremiah 30:14

2 And you shall be my people: and I will be your God.

Jeremiah 52:13

1 And concerning the pillars, one pillar was eighteen cubits high: and a cord of twelve cubits compassed it about: but the thickness thereof was four fingers, and it was hollow within.

Lamentations 2:2

0 Jod. The ancients of the daughter of Sion sit upon the ground, they have held their peace: they have sprinkled their heads with dust, they are girded with haircloth, the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.

Lamentations 2:4

2 Lamed. They said to their mothers: Where is corn and wine? when they fainted away as the wounded in the streets of the city: when they breathed out their souls in the bosoms of their mothers.

Ezekiel 2:10

Behold I have made thy face stronger than their faces: and thy forehead harder than their foreheads.

1 Samuel 28:16

1 And the woman came to Saul (for he was very much troubled) and said to him: Behold thy handmaid hath obeyed thy voice, and I have put my life in my hand: and I hearkened unto the words which thou spokest to me.