Lamentations 2:5-7
New King James Version
5 (A)The Lord was like an enemy.
He has swallowed up Israel,
He has swallowed up all her palaces;
(B)He has destroyed her strongholds,
And has increased mourning and lamentation
In the daughter of Judah.
6 He has done violence (C)to His [a]tabernacle,
(D)As if it were a garden;
He has destroyed His place of assembly;
The Lord has caused
The appointed feasts and Sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion.
In His burning indignation He has (E)spurned the king and the priest.
7 The Lord has spurned His altar,
He has (F)abandoned His sanctuary;
He has [b]given up the walls of her palaces
Into the hand of the enemy.
(G)They have made a noise in the house of the Lord
As on the day of a set feast.
Footnotes
- Lamentations 2:6 Lit. booth
- Lamentations 2:7 delivered
Lamentations 2:5-7
New International Version
5 The Lord is like an enemy;(A)
he has swallowed up Israel.
He has swallowed up all her palaces
and destroyed her strongholds.(B)
He has multiplied mourning and lamentation(C)
for Daughter Judah.(D)
Lamentations 2:5-7
English Standard Version
5 (A)The Lord has become like an enemy;
(B)he has swallowed up Israel;
(C)he has swallowed up all its palaces;
he has laid in ruins its strongholds,
and he has multiplied in the daughter of Judah
(D)mourning and lamentation.
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