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Selected Verse: Lamentations 2:5 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| La 2:5 |
Strong Concordance |
The Lord [0136] was as an enemy [0341]: he hath swallowed up [01104] Israel [03478], he hath swallowed up [01104] all her palaces [0759]: he hath destroyed [07843] his strong holds [04013], and hath increased [07235] in the daughter [01323] of Judah [03063] mourning [08386] and lamentation [0592]. |
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King James |
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. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
an enemy-- (Jer 30:14).
mourning and lamentation--There is a play of similar sounds in the original, "sorrow and sadness," to heighten the effect (Job 30:3, Hebrew; Eze 35:3, Margin). |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
| Literally, אדני 'ădonāy has become "as an enemy." |
| Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
| The Lord has become like an enemy. כּאויב is not separated from היה by the accents (Pesik and Mahpak before, and Kadma after); so that there appears to be nothing to justify the remark of Gerlach, that, "as if the prophet were hesitating whether he should state explicitly that the Lord had become an enemy, he breaks off the sentence he had begun, 'The Lord hath become...,' and continues, 'He hath destroyed like a mighty one.' " As to בּלּע, cf. Lam 2:2. "Israel" is the name of Judah viewed as the covenant people. The swallowing or destruction of Israel is explained in the clauses which follow as a destruction of the palaces and fortresses. The mention of the palaces points to the destruction of Jerusalem, while the "fortresses" similarly indicate the destruction of the strong cities in the country. The interchange of the suffixes ־יה and ־יו is accounted for on the ground that, when the writer was thinking of the citadels, the city hovered before his mind; and when he regarded the fortresses, the people of Israel similarly presented themselves. The same interchange is found in Hos 8:14; the assumption of a textual error, therefore, together with the conjectures based on that assumption, is shown to be untenable. On the expression, "He hath destroyed his strongholds," cf. Jer 47:1-7 :18; on תּאניּה ואניּה, Isa 29:2 : in this latter case, two word-forms derived from the same stem are combined for the sake of emphasis. "Daughter of Judah," as in Lam 2:2, cf. Lam 1:15. |
3 And say [0559] unto it, Thus saith [0559] the Lord [0136] GOD [03069]; Behold, O mount [02022] Seir [08165], I am against thee, and I will stretch out [05186] mine hand [03027] against thee, and I will make [05414] thee most [04923] desolate [08077].
3 For want [02639] and famine [03720] they were solitary [01565]; fleeing [06207] into the wilderness [06723] in former time [0570] desolate [07722] and waste [04875].
14 All thy lovers [0157] have forgotten [07911] thee; they seek [01875] thee not; for I have wounded [05221] thee with the wound [04347] of an enemy [0341], with the chastisement [04148] of a cruel one [0394], for the multitude [07230] of thine iniquity [05771]; because thy sins [02403] were increased [06105].
15 The Lord [0136] hath trodden under foot [05541] all my mighty [047] men in the midst [07130] of me: he hath called [07121] an assembly [04150] against me to crush [07665] my young men [0970]: the Lord [0136] hath trodden [01869] the virgin [01330], the daughter [01323] of Judah [03063], as in a winepress [01660].
2 The Lord [0136] hath swallowed up [01104] all the habitations [04999] of Jacob [03290], and hath not pitied [02550]: he hath thrown down [02040] in his wrath [05678] the strong holds [04013] of the daughter [01323] of Judah [03063]; he hath brought them down [05060] to the ground [0776]: he hath polluted [02490] the kingdom [04467] and the princes [08269] thereof.
2 Yet I will distress [06693] Ariel [0740], and there shall be heaviness [08386] and sorrow [0592]: and it shall be unto me as Ariel [0740].
1 The word [01697] of the LORD [03068] that came to Jeremiah [03414] the prophet [05030] against the Philistines [06430], before that Pharaoh [06547] smote [05221] Gaza [05804].
2 Thus saith [0559] the LORD [03068]; Behold, waters [04325] rise up [05927] out of the north [06828], and shall be an overflowing [07857] flood [05158], and shall overflow [07857] the land [0776], and all that is therein [04393]; the city [05892], and them that dwell [03427] therein: then the men [0120] shall cry [02199], and all the inhabitants [03427] of the land [0776] shall howl [03213].
3 At the noise [06963] of the stamping [08161] of the hoofs [06541] of his strong [047] horses, at the rushing [07494] of his chariots [07393], and at the rumbling [01995] of his wheels [01534], the fathers [01] shall not look back [06437] to their children [01121] for feebleness [07510] of hands [03027];
4 Because of the day [03117] that cometh [0935] to spoil [07703] all the Philistines [06430], and to cut off [03772] from Tyrus [06865] and Zidon [06721] every helper [05826] that remaineth [08300]: for the LORD [03068] will spoil [07703] the Philistines [06430], the remnant [07611] of the country [0339] of Caphtor [03731].
5 Baldness [07144] is come [0935] upon Gaza [05804]; Ashkelon [0831] is cut off [01820] with the remnant [07611] of their valley [06010]: how long wilt thou cut [01413] thyself?
6 O [01945] thou sword [02719] of the LORD [03068], how long will it be ere [03808] thou be quiet [08252]? put up [0622] thyself into thy scabbard [08593], rest [07280], and be still [01826].
7 How can it be quiet [08252], seeing the LORD [03068] hath given it a charge [06680] against Ashkelon [0831], and against the sea [03220] shore [02348]? there hath he appointed [03259] it.
14 For Israel [03478] hath forgotten [07911] his Maker [06213], and buildeth [01129] temples [01964]; and Judah [03063] hath multiplied [07235] fenced [01219] cities [05892]: but I will send [07971] a fire [0784] upon his cities [05892], and it shall devour [0398] the palaces [0759] thereof.
2 The Lord [0136] hath swallowed up [01104] all the habitations [04999] of Jacob [03290], and hath not pitied [02550]: he hath thrown down [02040] in his wrath [05678] the strong holds [04013] of the daughter [01323] of Judah [03063]; he hath brought them down [05060] to the ground [0776]: he hath polluted [02490] the kingdom [04467] and the princes [08269] thereof.