Lamentations 2:5

English Standard Version 2016

The Lord has become like an enemy; he has swallowed up Israel; he has swallowed up all its palaces; he has laid in ruins its strongholds, and he has multiplied in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.

Cross References

Lamentations 2:2

The Lord has swallowed up without mercy all the habitations of Jacob; in his wrath he has broken down the strongholds of the daughter of Judah; he has brought down to the ground in dishonor the kingdom and its rulers.

Jeremiah 30:14

All your lovers have forgotten you; they care nothing for you; for I have dealt you the blow of an enemy, the punishment of a merciless foe, because your guilt is great, because your sins are flagrant.

Lamentations 2:4

He has bent his bow like an enemy, with his right hand set like a foe; and he has killed all who were delightful in our eyes in the tent of the daughter of Zion; he has poured out his fury like fire.

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 burned down.

2 Kings 25:9

And he burned the house of the Lord and the king’s house and all the houses of Jerusalem; every great house he burned down.

Ezekiel 2:10

And he spread it before me. And it had writing on the front and on the back, and there were written on it words of lamentation and mourning and woe.

Jeremiah 15:1

Then the Lord said to me, “Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my heart would not turn toward this people. Send them out of my sight, and let them go!

Job 13:24

Why do you hide your face and count me as your enemy?

Psalm 89:40

You have breached all his walls; you have laid his strongholds in ruins.

Isaiah 29:2

Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be moaning and lamentation, and she shall be to me like an Ariel.

Jeremiah 21:4

‘Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: Behold, I will turn back the weapons of war that are in your hands and with which you are fighting against the king of Babylon and against the Chaldeans who are besieging you outside the walls. And I will bring them together into the midst of this city.

1 Samuel 28:16

And Samuel said, “Why then do you ask me, since the Lord has turned from you and become your enemy?

Job 19:11

He has kindled his wrath against me and counts me as his adversary.

Psalm 89:41

All who pass by plunder him; he has become the scorn of his neighbors.

Isaiah 63:10

But they rebelled and grieved his Holy Spirit; therefore he turned to be their enemy, and himself fought against them.