Lamentations 2:6
in Lamentations 2He has laid waste His tabernacle like a garden booth; He has destroyed His place of meeting. The LORD has made Zion forget her appointed feasts and Sabbaths. In His fierce anger He has despised both king and priest.
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ASV
And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden; he hath destroyed his place of assembly: Jehovah hath caused solemn assembly and sabbath to be forgotten in Zion, And hath despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest.
KJV
And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden: he hath destroyed his places of the assembly: the Lord hath caused the solemn feasts and sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion, and hath despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest.
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This verse in Lamentations 2
Commentary
10 notes on this verseAs if it were of a garden - “As it were the garden of his own hedging.” - Blayney. The Lord hath caused the solemn feasts - By delivering us up into the hands of the enemy our religious worship is not only suspended, but all Divine ordinances are destroyed.
This site's exposition
He has bent His bow like an enemy
on Lamentations 2:4-6
The covenant God is described in an invader's terms: “He has bent His bow like an enemy; His right hand is positioned”. He “has laid waste His tabernacle like a garden booth”. Each loss in the unit is traced to the LORD's own hand, behind Babylon's siege.
This site's exposition
He has laid waste His tabernacle like a garden booth
Albert Barnes compares the booth of boughs built for the Feast of Tabernacles and torn down like a garden shed, the image of Isaiah 1:8. Matthew Henry sees the king and priest despised in Zedekiah's humbling and the execution of Seraiah the chief priest, 2 Kings 25:18-21.
The record, by era
The Medieval Church1 voice
Verse 6 bemoaned the destruction of principal edifices. The first is the temple, second, the royal house or palace. As Verse 8 later says: "The Lord determined to lay in ruins the wall of the daughter of Zion; he marked it off by the line." …
The Puritans and the Awakening4 voices
He has abandoned them; he looks upon them as no longer worthy of the honours conveyed to them by the covenants of royalty and priesthood, but as having forfeited both; and then Zedekiah the king was used despitefully, and Seraiah the chief priest put to death as a malefactor.
) in the indignation of his anger. Note, To those who know how to value God's favour nothing appears more dreadful than his anger; corrections in love are easily borne, but rebukes in love wound deeply. It is God's wrath that burns against Jacob like a flaming fire (
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And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden,....
Those that have seen the days of the Son of man, and slighted them, may desire to see one of those days and not be permitted, Luke xvii. The altar that had sanctified their gifts is now cast off, for God will no more accept their gifts, nor be honoured by their sacrifices,
2 more voices on this verse
The Nineteenth Century2 voices
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
Isa 5:5), as that of a garden" [MAURER]. CALVIN supports English Version, "His tabernacle (that is, temple) as (one would take away the temporary cottage or booth) of a garden." Isa 1:8 accords with this (Job 27:18). places of . . . assembly--the temple and synagogues (Ps 74:7, 8). solemn feasts-- (La 1:4).
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A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
proposed
tabernacle - Or, covert Jer 25:38, i. e. such a tent of boughs as was put up at the Feast of Tabernacles. The words mean, “the Lord hath (as) violently destroyed His booth. as a man might tear down a shed in “a garden.”” Compare Isa 1:8. His places of the assembly - Or, “His great festivals” (Lam 1:15 note). It is the Word rendered “solemn feasts” in the next clause, and rightly joined there with “sabbaths,” the weekly, as the other were the annual festivals. It is no longer אדני 'ădonāy, but the Lord (Yahweh) who lets them pass into oblivion. He had once instituted them for His own honor, now He lets them lie forgotten. Hath despised ... - Or, “hath rejected” king and priest. With the destruction of the city the royal authority fell: with the ruined temple and the cessation of the festivals the functions of the priest ceased.
The words behind it
15 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וַיַּחְמֹ֤ס | vaiyachmos | and he has treated violently | H2554 → | |
| כַּגַּן֙ | kagan | like <the> garden | H1588 → | |
| שֻׂכּ֔וֹ | suko | booth his | H7900 → | |
| שִׁחֵ֖ת | shichet | he has ruined | H7843 → | 146 times |
| מוֹעֲד֑וֹ | moado | appointed place his | H4150 → | 223 times |
| שִׁכַּ֨ח | shikach | he has caused to be forgotten | H7911 → | |
| יְהוָ֤ה׀ | yahweh | Yahweh | H3068 → | 6520 times |
| בְּצִיּוֹן֙ | betziyon | in Zion | H6726 → | 154 times |
| מוֹעֵ֣ד | moed | appointed feast | H4150 → | 223 times |
| וְשַׁבָּ֔ת | veshabat | and sabbath | H7676 → | |
| וַיִּנְאַ֥ץ | vaiyinatz | and he has spurned | H5006 → | |
| בְּזַֽעַם־ | bezaam- | in [the] indignation of | H2195 → | |
| אַפּ֖וֹ | ʾapo | anger his | H639 → | 276 times |
| מֶ֥לֶךְ | melekh | king | H4428 → | 2525 times |
| וְכֹהֵֽן׃ ס | vekhohen | and priest | H3548 → | 750 times |
וַיַּחְמֹ֤סand he has treated violently
vaiyachmosH2554 →
כַּגַּן֙like <the> garden
kaganH1588 →
שֻׂכּ֔וֹbooth his
sukoH7900 →
שִׁחֵ֖תhe has ruined
shichetH7843 →146 times
מוֹעֲד֑וֹappointed place his
moadoH4150 →223 times
שִׁכַּ֨חhe has caused to be forgotten
shikachH7911 →
יְהוָ֤ה׀Yahweh
yahwehH3068 →6520 times
בְּצִיּוֹן֙in Zion
betziyonH6726 →154 times
מוֹעֵ֣דappointed feast
moedH4150 →223 times
וְשַׁבָּ֔תand sabbath
veshabatH7676 →
וַיִּנְאַ֥ץand he has spurned
vaiyinatzH5006 →
בְּזַֽעַם־in [the] indignation of
bezaam-H2195 →
אַפּ֖וֹanger his
ʾapoH639 →276 times
מֶ֥לֶךְking
melekhH4428 →2525 times
וְכֹהֵֽן׃ סand priest
vekhohenH3548 →750 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Isaiah 1:8And the Daughter of Zion is abandoned like a shelter in a vineyard, like a shack in a cucumber field, like a city besieged.
it leads to
- Zechariah 9:9
Rejoice greatly, O Daughter of Zion! Shout in triumph, O Daughter of Jerusalem! See, your King comes to you, righteous and victorious, humble and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of…
- John 12:15
“Do not be afraid, O Daughter of Zion. See, your King is coming, seated on the colt of a donkey.”
- Zechariah 2:10
“Shout for joy and be glad, O Daughter of Zion, for I am coming to dwell among you,” declares the LORD.
- Isaiah 62:11
Behold, the LORD has proclaimed to the ends of the earth, “Say to Daughter Zion: See, your Savior comes! Look, His reward is with Him, and His recompense goes before Him.”
- Isaiah 10:32
Yet today they will halt at Nob, shaking a fist at the mount of Daughter Zion, at the hill of Jerusalem.
- Zechariah 9:9
Through
Zephaniah 3:18“I will gather those among you who grieve over the appointed feasts, so that you will no longer suffer reproach.
it leads to
- Lamentations 2:6–7
He has laid waste His tabernacle like a garden booth; He has destroyed His place of meeting. The LORD has made Zion forget her appointed feasts and Sabbaths. In His fierce anger He has…
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Lamentations 2:6–7
Through
Isaiah 64:11Our holy and beautiful temple, where our fathers praised You, has been burned with fire, and all that was dear to us lies in ruins.
it leads to
- Psalms 74:5–7
like men wielding axes in a thicket of trees
- 2 Kings 25:9
He burned down the house of the LORD, the royal palace, and all the houses of Jerusalem—every significant building.
- Psalms 74:5–7
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Carl Friedrich Keil, Lamentations; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament; Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on Lamentations.