ESV Reformation Study Bible – Lam 2:22
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Lam 2:22

2:22 a festival day . . . terrors. This contrast between summoning to the joy of a feast and summoning to disaster is starkly powerful.

terrors. See Jer. 6:25; 20:10.

day of the anger of the Lord. The poem ends where it began, without alleviation of the dark picture.