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Lamentations 2:5

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

The Lord is like an enemy; he has swallowed up Israel. He swallowed up all its palaces and destroyed its fortified cities. He has multiplied mourning and lamentation within Daughter Judah.

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Without compassion  the Lord has swallowed up all the dwellings of Jacob. In his wrath he has demolished the fortified cities  of Daughter Judah. He brought them to the ground and defiled the kingdom and its leaders.


All your lovers have forgotten you; they no longer look for you, for I have struck you as an enemy would, with the discipline  of someone cruel, because of your enormous guilt and your innumerable sins.


He has strung his bow like an enemy; his right hand is positioned like an adversary. He has killed everyone who was the delight to the eye, pouring out his wrath like fire on the tent of Daughter Zion.


He burned the Lord’s temple, the king’s palace, all the houses of Jerusalem; he burned down all the great houses.


He burned the Lord’s temple,  the king’s palace,  and all the houses of Jerusalem; he burned down  all the great houses.


When he unrolled it before me, it was written on the front and back; words of lamentation, mourning, and woe were written on it.


Then the Lord said to me, ‘Even if Moses and Samuel  should stand before me,  my heart would not go out to these people. Send them from my presence, and let them go.


Why do you hide your face and consider me your enemy?


I will oppress Ariel, and there will be mourning and crying, and she will be to me like an Ariel.


“This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: I am about to repel the weapons of war in your hands,  those you are using to fight the king of Babylon and the Chaldeans  who are besieging you outside the wall, and I will bring them into the centre of this city.


Samuel answered, ‘Since the Lord has turned away from you and has become your enemy, why are you asking me?


His anger  burns against me, and he regards me as one of his enemies.


But they rebelled and grieved his Holy Spirit. So he became their enemy and fought against them.





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