Lamentations 2:5

Modern King James Version

Jehovah was like an enemy; He swallowed up Israel; He has swallowed up all her palaces, and destroyed His strongholds. And He has increased mourning and weeping in the daughter of Judah.

Cross References

2 Kings 25:9

And he burned the house of Jehovah, and the king's house, and all the houses of Jerusalem. And every great one's house he burned with fire.

Job 13:24

Why do You hide Your face, and hold me for Your enemy?

Job 19:11

He has also kindled His wrath against me, and to Himself He counts me as His enemy.

Psalm 89:40

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

Psalm 89:41

All who pass by the way plunder him; he is a curse to his neighbors.

Isaiah 29:2

Then I will distress Ariel, and there shall be heaviness and sorrow; and it shall be to me as Ariel.

Isaiah 63:10

But they rebelled, and troubled His Holy Spirit; therefore He was turned to be their enemy, and He fought against them.

Jeremiah 15:1

Then Jehovah said to me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before Me, My soul could not be toward this people. Send them out of My sight, and let them go out.

Jeremiah 21:4

So says the Jehovah, the God of Israel: Behold, I will turn back the weapons of war in your hands, with which you fight against the king of Babylon, and against the Chaldeans who besiege you outside the walls. And I will gather them together in the middle 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 chastisement of a cruel one, for the greatness of your iniquity; because your sins are many.

Jeremiah 52:13

And he burned the house of Jehovah, and the king's house. And he burned with fire all the houses of Jerusalem, and all the houses of the great ones.

Lamentations 2:2

The Lord swallowed up all the dwelling-places of Jacob and has not pitied. In His wrath He has thrown down the strongholds of the daughter of Judah; He has brought them down to the ground. He has defiled the kingdom and its rulers.

Lamentations 2:4

He has bent His bow like an enemy; He stood with His right hand like an adversary, and killed all who were desirable to the eye in the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion. He poured out His fury like fire.

Ezekiel 2:10

And He spread it before me; and it was written on the face and the back. And written on it were weepings, and mourning, and woe.

1 Samuel 28:16

And Samuel said, Why then do you ask me, since Jehovah has left you and has become your enemy?