Lamentations 2:5 - Modern English Version

⁵ The Lord has become 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.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ The Lord was as an enemy: He hath swallowed up Israel, He hath swallowed up all her palaces: He hath destroyed his strong holds, And hath increased in the daughter of Judah Mourning and lamentation.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ The Lord has become like an enemy; He has destroyed Israel. He has destroyed all its palaces, has laid in ruins its strongholds, and has multiplied in the Daughter of Judah groaning and moaning and lamentation.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ The Lord is become as an enemy, he hath swallowed up Israel; He hath swallowed up all her palaces, he hath destroyed his strongholds; And he hath multiplied in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.

Common English Bible

⁵ My Lord has become like an enemy. He devoured Israel; he devoured all her palaces; he made ruins of her city walls. In Daughter Judah he multiplied mourning along with more mourning!

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ HE. The Lord has become like an enemy. He has thrown down Israel. He has thrown down all of his defenses. He has torn apart his fortifications. And he has filled the daughter of Judah with humbled men and humbled women.

Lamentations 2:5 Tagairtí Cros

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 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 walls; You have brought his strongholds to ruin.

Psalm 89:41

All who pass by plunder him; he is a reproach to his neighbors.

Isaiah 29:2

Yet I will distress Ariel, and she shall be a city of lamenting and sorrow, and she shall be as an Ariel to me.

Isaiah 63:10

But they rebelled and grieved His Holy Spirit; therefore, He turned Himself to be their enemy, and He fought against them.

Jeremiah 15:1

Then the Lord said to me: Even though Moses and Samuel were to stand before Me, yet My heart would not be with this people. Cast them out of My sight and let them go!

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 against the Chaldeans who besiege you outside the walls; and I will assemble them into 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, because of the multitude of your iniquities, because your sins are numerous.

Jeremiah 52:13

and burned the house of the Lord, and the king’s house, and all the houses of Jerusalem. Even all the large houses, he burned with fire.

Lamentations 2:2

The Lord has swallowed up without mercy all the habitations of Jacob; in His wrath He has thrown down 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

He has bent His bow like an enemy, with his right hand set like an adversary; He has killed all who were pleasant to His eye; in the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion, He has poured out His fury like fire.

Ezekiel 2:10

And He spread it before me. And there was writing on the inside and on the outside, and written on it were words of lamentation and mourning and woe.

1 Samuel 28:16

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