Lamentations 2:5

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

The Lord has become like an enemy; he has destroyed Israel. He has destroyed all its palaces, laid in ruins its strongholds, and multiplied in daughter Judah mourning and lamentation.

Cross References

2 Kings 25:9

He burned the house of the Lord, the king’s house, and all the houses of Jerusalem; every great house he burned down.

Job 13:24

Why do you hide your face and count me as your enemy?

Job 19:11

He has kindled his wrath against me and counts me as his adversary.

Psalm 89:40

You have broken through all his walls; you have laid his strongholds in ruins.

Psalm 89:41

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

Isaiah 29:2

Yet I will oppress Ariel, and there shall be moaning and lamentation, and you shall be to me like an Ariel.

Isaiah 63:10

But they rebelled and grieved his holy spirit; therefore he became their enemy; he himself fought against them.

Jeremiah 15:1

Then the Lord said to me: Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my heart would not turn toward this people. Send them out of my sight, and let them go!

Jeremiah 21:4

Thus you shall say to Zedekiah: Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: I am going to turn back the weapons of war that are in your hands and with which you are fighting against the king of Babylon and against the Chaldeans who are besieging you outside the walls, and I will bring them together into the center of this city.

Jeremiah 30:14

All your lovers have forgotten you; they care nothing for you, for I have dealt you the blow of an enemy, the punishment of a merciless foe, because your guilt is great, because your sins are so numerous.

Jeremiah 52:13

He burned the house of the Lord, the king’s house, and all the houses of Jerusalem; every great house he burned down.

Lamentations 2:2

The Lord has destroyed without mercy all the dwellings of Jacob; in his wrath he has broken down the strongholds of daughter Judah; he has brought down to the ground in dishonor the kingdom and its rulers.

Lamentations 2:4

He has bent his bow like an enemy, with his right hand set like a foe; he has killed all those in whom we took pride in the tent of daughter Zion; he has poured out his fury like fire.

Ezekiel 2:10

He spread it before me; it had writing on the front and on the back, and written on it were words of lamentation and mourning and woe.

1 Samuel 28:16

Samuel said, “Why then do you ask me, since the Lord has turned from you and become your enemy?