Lamentations 2:5

The Scriptures 2009

יהוה has been like an enemy. He has swallowed up Yisra’ĕl, He has swallowed up all her palaces, He has destroyed her strongholds. And He increases mourning and lamentation In the daughter of Yehuḏah.

Cross References

2 Kings 25:9

And he burned the House of יהוה and the house of the sovereign, and all the houses of Yerushalayim – even every great house he burned with fire.

Job 13:24

Why do You hide Your face, and reckon me as Your enemy?

Job 19:11

And He 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 neighbours.

Isaiah 29:2

“And I shall distress Ari’ĕl, and there shall be mourning and sorrow, and it shall be to Me as Ari’ĕl.

Isaiah 63:10

But they rebelled and grieved His Set-apart Spirit, so He turned against them as an enemy, and He fought against them.

Jeremiah 15:1

And יהוה said to me, “Even if Mosheh and Shemu’ĕl were to stand before Me, My being is not toward this people. Send them away from My presence, let them go.

Jeremiah 21:4

Thus said יהוה Elohim of Yisra’ĕl, “See, I am turning back the weapons of battle that are in your hands, with which you fight against the sovereign of Baḇel and the Kasdim who besiege you outside the wall. And I shall gather them inside this city.

Jeremiah 30:14

All those loving you have forgotten you, they do not seek you. For I struck you as an enemy strikes, with cruel chastisement, because your crookedness is great, your sins have increased.

Jeremiah 52:13

and he burned the House of יהוה, and the sovereign’s house, and all the houses of Yerushalayim, and all the houses of the great men, he burned with fire.

Lamentations 2:2

יהוה has swallowed up, without compassion, All the pastures of Ya‛aqoḇ. In His wrath He has thrown down The strongholds of the daughter of Yehuḏah. He has brought them down to the ground. He has profaned the reign and its rulers.

Lamentations 2:4

He has bent His bow like an enemy. He has set His right hand like an adversary. And He kills all who delighted the eye. In the tent of the daughter of Tsiyon, He has poured out His wrath like fire.

Ezekiel 2:10

and He spread it before me, and it was written on the inside and on the outside. And written on it were lamentations and mourning and woe.

1 Samuel 28:16

Then Shemu’ĕl said, “And why do you ask me, seeing יהוה has turned aside from you and has become your enemy?