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Lamentations 2:2

Without pity the Lord has swallowed up all the dwellings of Jacob. In His wrath He has demolished the fortified cities of the Daughter of Judah. He brought to the ground and defiled her kingdom and its princes.

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ASV

The Lord hath swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and hath not pitied: He hath thrown down in his wrath the strongholds of the daughter of Judah; He hath brought them down to the ground; he hath profaned the kingdom and the princes thereof.

KJV

The Lord hath swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and hath not pitied: he hath thrown down in his wrath the strong holds of the daughter of Judah; he hath brought them down to the ground: he hath polluted the kingdom and the princes thereof.

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18 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
בִּלַּ֨עbi.La'he has swallowed upH1104 →
אֲדֹנָ֜י'a.do.Nai[the] LordH136 →
וְלֹ֣אlo'and notH3808 →
חָמַ֗לcha.Malhe has sparedH2550 →
אֵ֚ת'et<obj.>H853 →
כָּל־kol-allH3605 →
נְא֣וֹתne.'ot[the] settlements ofH4999 →
יַעֲקֹ֔בya.'a.KoJacobH3290 →
הָרַ֧סha.Rashe has torn downH2040 →
בְּעֶבְרָת֛וֹbe.'ev.ra.Toin wrath hisH5678 →
מִבְצְרֵ֥יmiv.tze.Rei[the] fortifications ofH4013 →
בַת־vat-[the] daughter ofH1323 →
יְהוּדָ֖הye.hu.DahJudahH3063 →
הִגִּ֣יעַhi.Gi.a'he has made [them] touchH5060 →
לָאָ֑רֶץla.'A.retz<to> the groundH776 →
חִלֵּ֥לchi.Lelhe has profanedH2490 →
מַמְלָכָ֖הmam.la.Khah[the] kingdomH4467 →
וְשָׂרֶֽיהָ׃ סve.sa.Rei.haand princes itsH8269 →

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Psalms 89:39–40You have renounced the covenant with Your servant and sullied his crown in the dust.Lamentations 2:17The LORD has done what He planned; He has accomplished His decree, which He ordained in days of old; He has overthrown you without pity. He has let the enemy gloat over you and exalted the horn of your foes.Lamentations 3:43You have covered Yourself in anger and pursued us; You have killed without pity.Psalms 21:9You will place them in a fiery furnace at the time of Your appearing. In His wrath the LORD will engulf them, and the fire will consume them.Isaiah 25:12The high-walled fortress will be brought down, cast to the ground, into the dust.Isaiah 43:28So I will disgrace the princes of your sanctuary, and I will devote Jacob to destruction and Israel to reproach.”Psalms 89:40You have broken down all his walls; You have reduced his strongholds to rubble.Nehemiah 2:17Then I said to them, “You see the trouble we are in. Jerusalem lies in ruins, and its gates have been burned down. Come, let us rebuild the wall of Jerusalem, so that we will no longer be a disgrace.”Isaiah 26:5For He has humbled those who dwell on high; He lays the lofty city low. He brings it down to the ground; He casts it into the dust.2 Corinthians 10:4The weapons of our warfare are not the weapons of the world. Instead, they have divine power to demolish strongholds.Ezekiel 9:10But as for Me, I will not look on them with pity, nor will I spare them. I will bring their deeds down upon their own heads.”Lamentations 2:21Both young and old lie together in the dust of the streets. My young men and maidens have fallen by the sword. You have slain them in the day of Your anger; You have slaughtered them without compassion.Micah 5:11–12I will remove the cities of your land and tear down all your strongholds.Lamentations 2:5The Lord is like an enemy; He has swallowed up Israel. He has swallowed up all her palaces and destroyed her strongholds. He has multiplied mourning and lamentation for the Daughter of Judah.Jeremiah 9:11“And I will make Jerusalem a heap of rubble, a haunt for jackals; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.”Isaiah 22:5For the Lord GOD of Hosts has set a day of tumult and trampling and confusion in the Valley of Vision—of breaking down the walls and crying to the mountains.Psalms 56:1Be merciful to me, O God, for men are hounding me; all day they press their attack.Ezekiel 8:18Therefore I will respond with wrath. I will not look on them with pity, nor will I spare them. Although they shout loudly in My ears, I will not listen to them.”

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People Mourn over the Destruction of Jerusalem — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
People Mourn over the Destruction of Jerusalem — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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