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Lamentations 2:3

In fierce anger He has cut off every horn of Israel and withdrawn His right hand at the approach of the enemy. He has burned in Jacob like a flaming fire that consumes everything around it.

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ASV

He hath cut off in fierce anger all the horn of Israel; He hath drawn back his right hand from before the enemy: And he hath burned up Jacob like a flaming fire, which devoureth round about.

KJV

He hath cut off in his fierce anger all the horn of Israel: he hath drawn back his right hand from before the enemy, and he burned against Jacob like a flaming fire, which devoureth round about.

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OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
גָּדַ֣עga.Da'he has cut offH1438 →
בָּֽחֳרִיbo.cho.ri-in [the] heat ofH2750 →
אַ֗ף'AfangerH639 →
כֹּ֚לkoleveryH3605 →
קֶ֣רֶןKe.ren<the> horn ofH7161 →
יִשְׂרָאֵ֔לYis.ra.'ElIsraelH3478 →
הֵשִׁ֥יבhe.Shivhe has turned backH7725 →
אָח֛וֹר'a.ChorbackwardH268 →
יְמִינ֖וֹye.mi.Noright [hand] hisH3225 →
מִפְּנֵ֣יmi.pe.Neifrom beforeH6440 →
אוֹיֵ֑ב'o.Yev[the] enemyH341 →
וַיִּבְעַ֤רvai.yiv.'Arand he has burnedH1197 →
בְּיַעֲקֹב֙be.ya.'a.Ko<in> JacobH3290 →
כְּאֵ֣שׁke.'Eshlike a fire ofH784 →
לֶֽהָבָ֔הle.ha.VahflameH3852 →
אָכְלָ֖ה'a.khe.Lah[which] it has consumedH398 →
סָבִֽיב׃ סsa.Vivall aroundH5439 →

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Psalms 74:11Why do You withdraw Your strong right hand? Stretch it out to destroy them!Isaiah 42:25So He poured out on them His furious anger and the fierceness of battle. It enveloped them in flames, but they did not understand; it consumed them, but they did not take it to heart.Psalms 75:10“All the horns of the wicked I will cut off, but the horns of the righteous will be exalted.”Psalms 75:5Do not lift up your horn against heaven or speak with an outstretched neck.’”Psalms 89:46How long, O LORD? Will You hide Yourself forever? Will Your wrath keep burning like fire?Jeremiah 48:25The horn of Moab has been cut off, and his arm is broken,” declares the LORD.Psalms 79:5How long, O LORD? Will You be angry forever? Will Your jealousy burn like fire?Jeremiah 21:14I will punish you as your deeds deserve, declares the LORD. I will kindle a fire in your forest that will consume everything around you.’”Jeremiah 4:4Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and remove the foreskins of your hearts, O men of Judah and people of Jerusalem. Otherwise, My wrath will break out like fire and burn with no one to extinguish it, because of your evil deeds.”Luke 3:17His winnowing fork 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.”Luke 1:69He has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of His servant David,Malachi 4:1“For behold, the day is coming, burning like a furnace, when all the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble; the day is coming when I will set them ablaze,” says the LORD of Hosts. “Not a root or branch will be left to them.”Jeremiah 7:20Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, My anger and My fury will be poured out on this place, on man and beast, on the trees of the field and the produce of the land, and it will burn and not be extinguished.Job 16:15I have sewn sackcloth over my skin; I have buried my horn in the dust.Isaiah 1:31The strong man will become tinder and his work will be a spark; both will burn together, with no one to quench the flames.Psalms 132:17There I will make a horn grow for David; I have prepared a lamp for My anointed one.Deuteronomy 32:22For a fire has been kindled by My anger, and it burns to the depths of Sheol; it consumes the earth and its produce, and scorches the foundations of the mountains.Jeremiah 21:4–5this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘I will turn against you the weapons of war in your hands, with which you are fighting the king of Babylon and the Chaldeans who besiege you outside the wall, and I will assemble their forces in the center of this city.

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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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