Lamentations 2:5

Legacy Standard Bible

The Lord has become like an enemy. He has swallowed up Israel; He has swallowed up all its palaces; He has brought its strongholds to ruin And multiplied in the daughter of Judah Mourning and moaning.

Cross References

2 Kings 25:9

And he burned the house of Yahweh, the king’s house, and all the houses of Jerusalem; even every great house he burned with fire.

Job 13:24

“Why do You hide Your face And think of me as Your enemy?

Job 19:11

“He has also kindled His anger against me And counted me as His adversary.

Psalm 89:40

You have broken down all his walls; You have beset his strongholds with ruin.

Psalm 89:41

All who pass along the way plunder him; He has become a reproach to his neighbors.

Isaiah 29:2

I will bring distress to Ariel, And she will be a city of mourning and moaning; And she will be like an Ariel to me.

Isaiah 63:10

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

Jeremiah 15:1

Then Yahweh said to me, “Even though Moses and Samuel were to stand before Me, My soul would not be with this people; send them away from My presence and let them go!

Jeremiah 21:4

‘Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, “Behold, I am about to turn back the weapons of war which are in your hands, with which you are warring against the king of Babylon and the Chaldeans who are besieging you outside the wall; and I will gather them into the center of this city.

Jeremiah 30:14

‘All your lovers have forgotten you; They do not seek you; For I have wounded you with the wound of an enemy, With the punishment of a cruel one, Because your iniquity is numerous And your sins are mighty.

Jeremiah 52:13

And he burned the house of Yahweh, the king’s house, and all the houses of Jerusalem; even every large house he burned with fire.

Lamentations 2:2

The Lord has swallowed up; He has not spared All the habitations of Jacob. In His wrath He has pulled down The strongholds of the daughter of Judah; He has brought them down to the ground; He has profaned the kingdom and its princes.

Lamentations 2:4

He has bent His bow like an enemy; He has set His right hand like an adversary And killed all that were desirable to the eye; In the tent of the daughter of Zion He has poured out His wrath like fire.

Ezekiel 2:10

Then He spread it out before me, and it was written on the front and back, and written on it were lamentations, sighing, and woe.

1 Samuel 28:16

And Samuel said, “Why then do you ask me, since Yahweh has turned away from you and has become your adversary?