Lamentations 2:2 - American Standard Version 2015 The Lord hath swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and hath not pitied:\par\tab He hath thrown down in his wrath the strongholds of the daughter of Judah;\par\tab He hath brought them down to the ground; he hath profaned the kingdom and the princes thereof. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 The Lord hath swallowed up All the habitations of Jacob, and hath not pitied: He hath thrown down in his wrath The strong holds of the daughter of Judah; He hath brought them down to the ground: He hath polluted the kingdom and the princes thereof. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition The Lord has swallowed up all the country places and habitations of Jacob and has spared not nor pitied; He has demolished in His wrath the strongholds of the Daughter of Judah. He has cast down to the ground the kingdom and its rulers, polluting them and depriving them of their sanctity. American Standard Version (1901) The Lord hath swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and hath not pitied: He hath thrown down in his wrath the strongholds of the daughter of Judah; He hath brought them down to the ground; he hath profaned the kingdom and the princes thereof. Common English Bible Showing no compassion, my Lord devoured each of Jacob’s meadows; in his wrath he tore down the walled cities of Daughter Judah. The kingdom and its officials, he forced to the ground, shamed. Catholic Public Domain Version BETH. The Lord has cast down, and he has not been lenient, with all the beauties of Jacob. In his fury, he has destroyed the fortifications of the virgin of Judah, and he has thrown them down to the ground. He has polluted the kingdom and its leaders. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Beth. The Lord hath cast down headlong and hath not spared all that was beautiful in Jacob: he hath destroyed in his wrath the strongholds of the virgin of Juda and brought them down to the ground: he hath made the kingdom unclean, and the princes thereof. |
And Jehovah said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job? for there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and turneth away from evil: and he still holdeth fast his integrity, although thou movedst me against him, to destroy him without cause.
Thou wilt make them as a fiery furnace in the time of thine anger:\par\tab Jehovah will swallow them up in his wrath,\par\tab And the fire shall devour them.
They have set thy sanctuary on fire;\par\tab They have profaned the dwelling-place of thy name {\i by casting it} to the ground.
For it is a day of discomfiture, and of treading down, and of perplexity, from the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, in the valley of vision; a breaking down of the walls, and a crying to the mountains.
Jehovah of hosts hath purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory, to bring into contempt all the honorable of the earth.
And the high fortress of thy walls hath he brought down, laid low, and brought to the ground, even to the dust.\par
For he hath brought down them that dwell on high, the lofty city: he layeth it low, he layeth it low even to the ground; he bringeth it even to the dust.
When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off; the women shall come, and set them on fire; for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have compassion upon them, and he that formed them will show them no favor.\par
Therefore I will profane the princes of the sanctuary; and I will make Jacob a curse, and Israel a reviling.\par
I was wroth with my people, I profaned mine inheritance, and gave them into thy hand: thou didst show them no mercy; upon the aged hast thou very heavily laid thy yoke.
And I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and the sons together, saith Jehovah: I will not pity, nor spare, nor have compassion, that I should not destroy them.\par
Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, Behold, I will bring upon this city and upon all its towns all the evil that I have pronounced against it; because they have made their neck stiff, that they may not hear my words.\par
And afterward, saith Jehovah, I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, and his servants, and the people, even such as are left in this city from the pestilence, from the sword, and from the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those that seek their life: and he shall smite them with the edge of the sword; he shall not spare them, neither have pity, nor have mercy.\par
Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end: take away her branches; for they are not Jehovah's.
Jehovah hath done that which he purposed; he hath fulfilled his word that he commanded in the days of old;\par\tab He hath thrown down, and hath not pitied:\par\tab And he hath caused the enemy to rejoice over thee; he hath exalted the horn of thine adversaries.
The youth and the old man lie on the ground in the streets;\par\tab My virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword:\par\tab Thou hast slain them in the day of thine anger; thou hast slaughtered, {\i and} not pitied.
The Lord is become as an enemy, he hath swallowed up Israel;\par\tab He hath swallowed up all her palaces, he hath destroyed his strongholds;\par\tab And he hath multiplied in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.
Thou hast covered with anger and pursued us; thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.
Wherefore, as I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, surely, because thou hast defiled my sanctuary with all thy detestable things, and with all thine abominations, therefore will I also diminish {\i thee}; neither shall mine eye spare, and I also will have no pity.
And mine eye shall not spare thee, neither will I have pity; but I will bring thy ways upon thee, and thine abominations shall be in the midst of thee: and ye shall know that I am Jehovah.\par
And mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: I will bring upon thee according to thy ways; and thine abominations shall be in the midst of thee; and ye shall know that I, Jehovah, do smite.\par
Therefore will I also deal in wrath; mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity; and though they cry in mine ears with a loud voice, yet will I not hear them.\par
And as for me also, mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity, but I will bring their way upon their head.
and I will pluck up thine Asherim out of the midst of thee; and I will destroy thy cities.
Whereas Edom saith, We are beaten down, but we will return and build the waste places; thus saith Jehovah of hosts, They shall build, but I will throw down; and men shall call them The border of wickedness, and The people against whom Jehovah hath indignation for ever.
shouldest not thou also have had mercy on thy fellow-servant, even as I had mercy on thee?
(for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty before God to the casting down of strongholds),
And they shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and fortified walls come down, wherein thou trustedst, throughout all thy land; and they shall besiege thee in all thy gates throughout all thy land, which Jehovah thy God hath given thee.
For a fire is kindled in mine anger, And burneth unto the lowest Sheol, And devoureth the earth with its increase, And setteth on fire the foundations of the mountains.