Lamentations 2:5

New International Version

The Lord is like an enemy; he has swallowed up Israel. He has swallowed up all her palaces and destroyed her strongholds. He has multiplied mourning and lamentation for Daughter Judah.

Cross References

2 Kings 25:9

He set fire to the temple of the Lord, the royal palace and all the houses of Jerusalem. Every important building he burned down.

Job 13:24

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

Job 19:11

His anger burns against me; he counts me among his enemies.

Psalm 89:40

You have broken through all his walls and reduced his strongholds to ruins.

Psalm 89:41

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

Isaiah 29:2

Yet I will besiege Ariel; she will mourn and lament, she will be to me like an altar hearth.

Isaiah 63:10

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

Jeremiah 15:1

Then the Lord said to me: “Even if Moses and Samuel were to stand before me, my heart would not go out to this people. Send them away from my presence! Let them go!

Jeremiah 21:4

‘This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: I am about to turn against you the weapons of war that are in your hands, which you are using to fight the king of Babylon and the Babylonians who are outside the wall besieging you. And I will gather them inside this city.

Jeremiah 30:14

All your allies have forgotten you; they care nothing for you. I have struck you as an enemy would and punished you as would the cruel, because your guilt is so great and your sins so many.

Jeremiah 52:13

He set fire to the temple of the Lord, the royal palace and all the houses of Jerusalem. Every important building he burned down.

Lamentations 2:2

Without pity the Lord has swallowed up all the dwellings of Jacob; in his wrath he has torn down the strongholds of Daughter Judah. He has brought her kingdom and its princes down to the ground in dishonor.

Lamentations 2:4

Like an enemy he has strung his bow; his right hand is ready. Like a foe he has slain all who were pleasing to the eye; he has poured out his wrath like fire on the tent of Daughter Zion.

Ezekiel 2:10

which he unrolled before me. On both sides of it were written words of lament and mourning and woe.

1 Samuel 28:16

Samuel said, “Why do you consult me, now that the Lord has departed from you and become your enemy?