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Lamentations 2 Summary
The Lord's Wrath Against Zion
The Lord covered Zion with a cloud of anger and cast down the beauty of Israel, forgetting His footstool in His wrath. He swallowed up all Jacob's habitations, destroyed strongholds, and burned against them like flaming fire; He bent His bow like an enemy and slew all the pleasant things. The Lord destroyed His tabernacle and caused solemn feasts to be forgotten, stretching out a line of destruction so that gates sank to the ground and the law ceased. Prophets find no vision from the Lord, while elders sit in silence with dust on their heads; the writer's tears fail as children and sucklings swoon in the streets, calling to their mothers for bread and wine.
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Key verses
Lamentations 2:1
“How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger, and cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel, and remembered not his footstool in the day of his anger!”
Lamentations 2:5
“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.”
Lamentations 2:9
“Her gates are sunk into the ground; he hath destroyed and broken her bars: her king and her princes are among the Gentiles: the law is no more; her prophets also find no vision from the LORD.”
Lamentations 2:21
“The young and the old lie on the ground in the streets: my virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword; thou hast slain them in the day of thine anger; thou hast killed, and not pitied.”
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