Lamentations 2:5

New King James Version

The Lord was like an enemy. He has swallowed up Israel, He has swallowed up all her palaces; He has destroyed her strongholds, And has increased mourning and lamentation In the daughter of Judah.

Cross References

2 Kings 25:9

He burned the house of the Lord and the king’s house; all the houses of Jerusalem, that is, all the houses of the great, he burned with fire.

Job 13:24

Why do You hide Your face, And regard me as Your enemy?

Job 19:11

He has also kindled His wrath against me, And He counts me as one of His enemies.

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 reproach to his neighbors.

Isaiah 29:2

Yet I will distress Ariel; There shall be heaviness and sorrow, And it shall be to Me as Ariel.

Isaiah 63:10

But they rebelled and grieved His Holy Spirit; So He turned Himself against them as an enemy, And He fought against them.

Jeremiah 15:1

Then the Lord said to me, “Even if Moses and Samuel stood before Me, My mind would not be favorable toward this people. Cast them out of My sight, and let them go forth.

Jeremiah 21:4

‘Thus says the Lord God of Israel: “Behold, I will turn back the weapons of war that are in your hands, with which you fight against the king of Babylon and the Chaldeans who besiege you outside the walls; and I will assemble them in the midst 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 multitude of your iniquities, Because your sins have increased.

Jeremiah 52:13

He burned the house of the Lord and the king’s house; all the houses of Jerusalem, that is, all the houses of the great, he burned with fire.

Lamentations 2:2

The Lord has swallowed up and has not pitied All the dwelling places of Jacob. He has thrown down in His wrath 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

Standing like an enemy, He has bent His bow; With His right hand, like an adversary, He has slain all who were pleasing to His eye; On the tent of the daughter of Zion, He has poured out His fury like fire.

Ezekiel 2:10

Then He spread it before me; and there was writing on the inside and on the outside, and written on it were lamentations and mourning and woe.

1 Samuel 28:16

Then Samuel said: “So why do you ask me, seeing the Lord has departed from you and has become your enemy?