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Lamentations 2:5

The 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.

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ASV

The Lord is become as an enemy, he hath swallowed up Israel; He hath swallowed up all her palaces, he hath destroyed his strongholds; And he hath multiplied in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.

KJV

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.

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15 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
הָיָ֨הha.Yahhe has becomeH1961 →
אֲדֹנָ֤י׀'a.do.Nai[the] LordH136 →
כְּאוֹיֵב֙ke.'o.Yevlike an enemyH341 →
בִּלַּ֣עbi.La'he has swallowed upH1104 →
יִשְׂרָאֵ֔לYis.ra.'ElIsraelH3478 →
בִּלַּע֙bi.La'he has swallowed upH1104 →
כָּל־kol-allH3605 →
אַרְמְנוֹתֶ֔יהָ'ar.me.no.Tei.hapalaces itsH759 →
שִׁחֵ֖תshi.Chethe has ruinedH7843 →
מִבְצָרָ֑יוmiv.tza.Ravfortifications itsH4013 →
וַיֶּ֙רֶב֙vai.Ye.revand he has multipliedH7235 →
בְּבַת־be.vat-in [the] daughter ofH1323 →
יְהוּדָ֔הye.hu.DahJudahH3063 →
תַּאֲנִיָּ֖הta.'a.ni.YahmourningH8386 →
וַאֲנִיָּֽה׃ סva.'a.ni.Yahand lamentationH592 →

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Lamentations 2:2Without 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.Job 13:24Why do You hide Your face and consider me as Your enemy?2 Kings 25:9He burned down the house of the LORD, the royal palace, and all the houses of Jerusalem—every significant building.Jeremiah 30:14All your lovers have forgotten you; they no longer seek you, for I have struck you as an enemy would, with the discipline of someone cruel, because of your great iniquity and your numerous sins.Psalms 89:40You have broken down all his walls; You have reduced his strongholds to rubble.Lamentations 2:4He has bent His bow like an enemy; His right hand is positioned. Like a foe He has killed all who were pleasing to the eye; He has poured out His wrath like fire on the tent of the Daughter of Zion.Jeremiah 52:13He burned down the house of the LORD, the royal palace, and all the houses of Jerusalem—every significant building.Psalms 56:1Be merciful to me, O God, for men are hounding me; all day they press their attack.Jeremiah 21:4this 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.2 Chronicles 36:16–17But they mocked the messengers of God, despising His words and scoffing at His prophets, until the wrath of the LORD against His people was stirred up beyond remedy.Jeremiah 9:17–20This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Take note, and summon the wailing women; send for the most skillful among them.Jeremiah 15:1Then the LORD said to me: “Even if Moses and Samuel should stand before Me, My heart would not go out to this people. Send them from My presence, and let them go.Ezekiel 2:10which He unrolled before me. And written on the front and back of it were words of lamentation, mourning, and woe.Ezekiel 36:3therefore prophesy and declare that this is what the Lord GOD says: Because they have made you desolate and have trampled you on every side, so that you became a possession of the rest of the nations and were taken up in slander by the lips of their talkers,Ezekiel 5:8Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Behold, I Myself am against you, Jerusalem, and I will execute judgments among you in the sight of the nations.Hosea 8:8Israel is swallowed up! Now they are among the nations like a worthless vessel.Isaiah 29:2And I will constrain Ariel, and there will be mourning and lamentation; she will be like an altar hearth before Me.2 Samuel 20:19I am among the peaceable and faithful in Israel, but you are trying to destroy a city that is a mother in Israel. Why would you swallow up the LORD’s inheritance?”

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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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