Lamentations 2:5 - The Scriptures 1998

⁵ יהוה  has been like an enemy. He has swallowed up Yisra’ĕ

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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

And he burned the House of יהוה  and the house of the sovereign, and all the houses of Yerushalayim – even every great house he burned with fire.

Job 13:24

Why do You hide Your face, and reckon me as Your enemy?

Job 19:11

And He kindled His wrath against me, and He counts me as one of His enemies.

Psalm 89:40

You have broken down all his hedges, You have brought his strongholds to ruin.

Psalm 89:41

All who pass by the way plunder him; He is a reproach to his neighbours.

Isaiah 29:2

“And I shall distress Ari’ĕ

Isaiah 63:10

But they rebelled and grieved His Set-apart Spirit, so He turned against them as an enemy, and He fought against them.

Jeremiah 15:1

And יהוה  said to me, “Even if Mosheh and Shemu’ĕ

Jeremiah 21:4

‘Thus said יהוה  Elohim of Yisra’ĕ

Jeremiah 30:14

‘All those loving you have forgotten you, they do not seek you. For I smote you as an enemy smites, with cruel chastisement, because your crookedness is great, your sins have increased.

Jeremiah 52:13

and he burned the House of יהוה, and the sovereign’s house, and all the houses of Yerushalayim, and all the houses of the great men, he burned with fire.

Lamentations 2:2

יהוה  has swallowed up, without compassion, All the pastures of Yaʽ

Lamentations 2:4

He has bent His bow like an enemy. He has set His right hand like an adversary. And He slays all who delighted the eye. In the tent of the daughter of Tsiyon, He has poured out His wrath like fire.

Ezekiel 2:10

and He spread it before me, and it was written on the inside and on the outside. And written on it were lamentations and mourning and woe.

1 Samuel 28:16

Then Shemu’ĕ