In fierce anger he has cut off
    every horn[a][b](A) of Israel.
He has withdrawn his right hand(B)
    at the approach of the enemy.
He has burned in Jacob like a flaming fire
    that consumes everything around it.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 2:3 Or off / all the strength; or every king
  2. Lamentations 2:3 Horn here symbolizes strength.

11 Why do you hold back your hand, your right hand?(A)
    Take it from the folds of your garment(B) and destroy them!

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25 So he poured out on them his burning anger,(A)
    the violence of war.
It enveloped them in flames,(B) yet they did not understand;(C)
    it consumed them, but they did not take it to heart.(D)

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10 who says, “I will cut off the horns of all the wicked,
    but the horns of the righteous will be lifted up.”(A)

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Do not lift your horns against heaven;
    do not speak so defiantly.(A)’”

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25 Moab’s horn[a](A) is cut off;
    her arm(B) is broken,”
declares the Lord.

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  1. Jeremiah 48:25 Horn here symbolizes strength.

46 How long, Lord? Will you hide yourself forever?
    How long will your wrath burn like fire?(A)

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How long,(A) Lord? Will you be angry(B) forever?
    How long will your jealousy burn like fire?(C)

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17 His winnowing fork(A) is in his hand to clear his threshing floor and to gather the wheat into his barn, but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”(B)

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69 He has raised up a horn[a](A) of salvation for us
    in the house of his servant David(B)

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  1. Luke 1:69 Horn here symbolizes a strong king.

Judgment and Covenant Renewal

[a]“Surely the day is coming;(A) it will burn like a furnace.(B) All the arrogant(C) and every evildoer will be stubble,(D) and the day that is coming will set them on fire,(E)” says the Lord Almighty. “Not a root or a branch(F) will be left to them.

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  1. Malachi 4:1 In Hebrew texts 4:1-6 is numbered 3:19-24.

14 I will punish you as your deeds(A) deserve,
    declares the Lord.
I will kindle a fire(B) in your forests(C)
    that will consume everything around you.’”

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‘This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: I am about to turn(A) against you the weapons of war that are in your hands, which you are using to fight the king of Babylon and the Babylonians[a] who are outside the wall besieging(B) you. And I will gather them inside this city. I myself will fight(C) against you with an outstretched hand(D) and a mighty arm(E) in furious anger and in great wrath.

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  1. Jeremiah 21:4 Or Chaldeans; also in verse 9

20 “‘Therefore this is what the Sovereign(A) Lord says: My anger(B) and my wrath will be poured(C) out on this place—on man and beast, on the trees of the field and on the crops of your land—and it will burn and not be quenched.(D)

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Circumcise yourselves to the Lord,
    circumcise your hearts,(A)
    you people of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem,
or my wrath(B) will flare up and burn like fire(C)
    because of the evil(D) you have done—
    burn with no one to quench(E) it.

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31 The mighty man will become tinder
    and his work a spark;
both will burn together,
    with no one to quench the fire.(A)

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17 “Here I will make a horn[a] grow(A) for David
    and set up a lamp(B) for my anointed one.(C)

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  1. Psalm 132:17 Horn here symbolizes strong one, that is, king.

24 My faithful love will be with him,(A)
    and through my name his horn[a] will be exalted.

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  1. Psalm 89:24 Horn here symbolizes strength.

15 “I have sewed sackcloth(A) over my skin
    and buried my brow in the dust.(B)

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22 For a fire will be kindled by my wrath,(A)
    one that burns down to the realm of the dead below.(B)
It will devour(C) the earth and its harvests(D)
    and set afire the foundations of the mountains.(E)

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