Lamentations 2:5

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

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.

Cross References

2 Kings 25:9

He burned the house of the Lord, the king's house, and all the houses of Jerusalem; every great house he burned down.

Job 13:24

Why do You hide Your face [as if offended] and alienate me as if I were Your enemy?

Job 19:11

He has also kindled His wrath against me, and He counts me as one of His adversaries.

Psalm 89:40

You have broken down all his hedges and his walls; You have brought his strongholds to ruin.

Psalm 89:41

All who pass along the road spoil and rob him; he has become the scorn and reproach of his neighbors.

Isaiah 29:2

Then will I distress Ariel; and there shall be mourning and lamentation, yet she shall be to Me like an Ariel [an altar hearth, a hearth of burning, the altar of God].

Isaiah 63:10

But they rebelled and grieved His Holy Spirit; therefore He turned to become their enemy and Himself fought against them.

Jeremiah 15:1

THEN THE Lord said to me, Though Moses and Samuel stood [interceding for them] before Me, yet My mind could not be turned with favor toward this people [Judah]. Send them out of My sight and let them go!

Jeremiah 21:4

Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: Behold, I will turn back and dull the edge of the weapons of war that are in your hands, with which you fight against the king of Babylon and the Chaldeans who are besieging you outside the walls; and I will bring them into the midst of this city [Jerusalem].

Jeremiah 30:14

All your lovers (allies) have forgotten you; they neither seek, inquire of, or require you. For I have hurt you with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel and merciless foe, because of the greatness of your perversity and guilt, because your sins are glaring and innumerable.

Jeremiah 52:13

And he burned the house of the Lord and the king's house and all the houses of Jerusalem; every great house he consumed with fire.

Lamentations 2:2

The Lord has swallowed up all the country places and habitations of Jacob and has spared not nor pitied; He has demolished in His wrath the strongholds of the Daughter of Judah. He has cast down to the ground the kingdom and its rulers, polluting them and depriving them of their sanctity.

Lamentations 2:4

He has bent His bow like an enemy; He has stood with His right hand set like a foe and has slain all the delights and pride of the eye; on and in the tent of the Daughter of Zion He has poured out His wrath like fire.

Ezekiel 2:10

And He spread it before me and it was written within and on the back, and written on it were words of lamentation and mourning and woe.

1 Samuel 28:16

Samuel said, Why then do you ask me, seeing that the Lord has turned from you and has become your enemy?