Lamentations 2:5

Bible in Basic English 1965

The Lord has become like one fighting against her, sending destruction on Israel; he has sent destruction on all her great houses, making waste his strong places: increasing the grief and the sorrow of the daughter of Judah.

Cross References

2 Kings 25:9

And he had the house of the Lord and the king's house and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, burned with fire;

Job 13:24

Why is your face veiled from me, as if I was numbered among your haters?

Job 19:11

His wrath is burning against me, and I am to him as one of his haters.

Psalm 89:40

All his walls are broken down; you have given his strong towers to destruction.

Psalm 89:41

All those who come by take away his goods; he is laughed at by his neighbours.

Isaiah 29:2

And I will send trouble on Ariel, and there will be weeping and cries of grief; and she will be to me as Ariel.

Isaiah 63:10

But they went against him, causing grief to his holy spirit: so he was turned against them, and made war on them.

Jeremiah 15:1

Then the Lord said to me, Even if Moses and Samuel came before me, I would have no desire for this people: send them away from before me, and let them go.

Jeremiah 21:4

The Lord God of Israel has said, See, I am turning back the instruments of war in your hands, with which you are fighting against the king of Babylon and the Chaldaeans, who are outside the walls and shutting you in; and I will get them together inside this town.

Jeremiah 30:14

Your lovers have no more thought for you, they go after you no longer; for I have given you the wound of a hater, even cruel punishment;

Jeremiah 52:13

And he had the house of the Lord and the king's house and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, burned with fire:

Lamentations 2:2

The Lord has given up to destruction all the living-places of Jacob without pity; pulling down in his wrath the strong places of the daughter of Judah, stretching out on the earth the wounded, even her king and her rulers.

Lamentations 2:4

His bow has been bent for the attack, he has taken his place with his hand ready, in his hate he has put to death all who were pleasing to the eye: on the tent of the daughter of Zion he has let loose his passion like fire.

Ezekiel 2:10

And he put it open before me, and it had writing on the front and on the back; words of grief and sorrow and trouble were recorded in it.

1 Samuel 28:16

And Samuel said, Why do you put your questions to me, seeing that God has gone away from you and is on the side of him who is against you?