Lamentations 2:5

New Living Translation

Yes, the Lord has vanquished Israel like an enemy. He has destroyed her palaces and demolished her fortresses. He has brought unending sorrow and tears upon beautiful Jerusalem.

Cross References

2 Kings 25:9

He burned down the Temple of the Lord, the royal palace, and all the houses of Jerusalem. He destroyed all the important buildings in the city.

Job 13:24

Why do you turn away from me? Why do you treat me as your enemy?

Job 19:11

His fury burns against me; he counts me as an enemy.

Psalm 89:40

You have broken down the walls protecting him and ruined every fort defending him.

Psalm 89:41

Everyone who comes along has robbed him, and he has become a joke to his neighbors.

Isaiah 29:2

Yet I will bring disaster upon you, and there will be much weeping and sorrow. For Jerusalem will become what her name Ariel means— an altar covered with blood.

Isaiah 63:10

But they rebelled against him and grieved his Holy Spirit. So he became their enemy and fought against them.

Jeremiah 15:1

Then the Lord said to me, “Even if Moses and Samuel stood before me pleading for these people, I wouldn’t help them. Away with them! Get them out of my sight!

Jeremiah 21:4

‘This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: I will make your weapons useless against the king of Babylon and the Babylonians who are outside your walls attacking you. In fact, I will bring your enemies right into the heart of this city.

Jeremiah 30:14

All your lovers—your allies—have left you and do not care about you anymore. I have wounded you cruelly, as though I were your enemy. For your sins are many, and your guilt is great.

Jeremiah 52:13

He burned down the Temple of the Lord, the royal palace, and all the houses of Jerusalem. He destroyed all the important buildings in the city.

Lamentations 2:2

Without mercy the Lord has destroyed every home in Israel. In his anger he has broken down the fortress walls of beautiful Jerusalem. He has brought them to the ground, dishonoring the kingdom and its rulers.

Lamentations 2:4

He bends his bow against his people, as though he were their enemy. His strength is used against them to kill their finest youth. His fury is poured out like fire on beautiful Jerusalem.

Ezekiel 2:10

which he unrolled. And I saw that both sides were covered with funeral songs, words of sorrow, and pronouncements of doom.

1 Samuel 28:16

But Samuel replied, “Why ask me, since the Lord has left you and has become your enemy?