Lamentations 2 - New American Standard Bible (NASB)

God’s Anger over Israel

2 How the Lord has [a](A)covered the daughter of Zion
With a cloud in His anger!
He has (B)hurled
The (C)glory of Israel from heaven to earth,
And has not remembered His (D)footstool
In the day of His anger.
2 The Lord has [b](E)destroyed; He has not spared
All the settlements of Jacob.
In His wrath He has (F)overthrown
The strongholds of the daughter of Judah,
He has (G)hurled them down to the ground;
He has (H)profaned the kingdom and its leaders.
3 In fierce anger He has cut off
[c]All the (I)strength of Israel;
He has (J)pulled back His right hand
From the enemy.
And He has (K)burned in Jacob like a flaming fire
Consuming on all sides.
4 He has bent His (L)bow like an enemy;
His right hand is positioned like an adversary,
And He has killed everything that was (M)pleasant to the eye.
In the tent of the daughter of Zion
He has (N)poured out His wrath like fire.
5 The Lord has become like an (O)enemy.
He has (P)engulfed Israel;
He has engulfed all its (Q)palaces,
He has destroyed its strongholds
And (R)caused great mourning and grieving in the daughter of Judah.
6 And He has treated His [d]tabernacle violently, like a despised garden;
He has (S)destroyed His appointed [e]meeting place.
The Lord has (T)caused
The appointed feast and Sabbath in Zion to be forgotten,
And He has (U)despised king and priest
In the indignation of His anger.
7 The Lord has (V)rejected His altar,
He has [f]repudiated His sanctuary;
He (W)has handed over
The walls of her palaces to the enemy.
They have made a (X)noise in the house of the Lord
As on the day of an appointed feast.
8 The Lord determined to destroy
The wall of the daughter of Zion.
He has (Y)stretched out a line,
He has not restrained His hand from [g]destroying,
And He has (Z)caused rampart and wall to mourn;
They have languished together.
9 Her (AA)gates have sunk into the ground,
He has destroyed and broken her bars.
Her king and her leaders are among the nations;
The (AB)Law is gone.
Her prophets, too, find
(AC)No vision from the Lord.
10 The elders of the daughter of Zion
(AD)Sit on the ground and [h](AE)are silent.
They have thrown (AF)dust on their heads;
They have put on (AG)sackcloth.
The (AH)virgins of Jerusalem
Have bowed their heads to the ground.
11 My (AI)eyes fail because of tears,
My [i](AJ)spirit is greatly troubled;
My [j](AK)heart is poured out on the earth
(AL)Because of the [k]destruction of the daughter of my people,
When (AM)little ones and infants languish
In the streets of the city.
12 They say to their mothers,
“(AN)Where is grain and wine?”
As they faint like a wounded person
In the streets of the city,
As their (AO)lives are poured out
[l]In their mothers’ arms.
13 How shall I admonish you?
What (AP)shall I compare to you,
Daughter of Jerusalem?
What shall I liken to you as I comfort you,
(AQ)Virgin daughter of Zion?
For your collapse is as vast as the sea;
Who can (AR)heal you?
14 Your (AS)prophets have seen for you
Worthless and deceptive visions;
And they have not (AT)exposed your wrongdoing
So as to restore you from captivity,
But they have (AU)seen for you worthless and misleading pronouncements.
15 All who pass along the way
(AV)Clap their hands in ridicule at you;
They (AW)[m]hiss and shake their heads
At the daughter of Jerusalem:
“Is this the city of which they said,
‘(AX)Perfect in beauty,
(AY)A joy to all the earth’?”
16 All (AZ)your enemies
Have opened their mouths wide against you;
They [n]hiss and (BA)gnash their teeth.
They say, “We have (BB)engulfed her!
This certainly is the (BC)day which we awaited;
We have reached it, we have seen it!”
17 The Lord has (BD)done what He determined;
He has accomplished His word
Which He commanded from days of old.
He has torn down (BE)without sparing,
And He has helped the enemy to (BF)rejoice over you;
He has (BG)exalted the [o]might of your adversaries.
18 Their (BH)heart cried out to the Lord:
“You (BI)wall of the daughter of Zion,
Let your (BJ)tears stream down like a river day and night;
Give yourself no relief,
Let [p]your eyes have no rest.
19 Arise, whimper in the (BK)night
At the beginning of the night watches;
(BL)Pour out your heart like water
Before the presence of the Lord;
Raise your hands to Him
For the (BM)life of your little ones
Who (BN)languish because of hunger
At the head of every street.
20 See, Lord, and look!
With (BO)whom have You dealt this way?
Should women really (BP)eat their [q]children,
The little ones who were [r]born healthy?
Should (BQ)priest and prophet really be killed
In the sanctuary of the Lord?
21 On the ground in the streets
Lie (BR)young and old;
My (BS)virgins and my young men
Have fallen by the sword.
You have put them to death on the day of Your anger,
You have slaughtered, (BT)without sparing.
22 You called as on the day of an appointed feast
My (BU)terrors on every side;
And there was (BV)no one who survived or escaped
On the day of the Lord’s anger.
As for those (BW)whom I brought forth healthy and whom I raised,
My enemy annihilated them.”

Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 2:1 Or scorned...Zion in His anger
  2. Lamentations 2:2 Lit engulfed
  3. Lamentations 2:3 Lit Every horn
  4. Lamentations 2:6 Or booth
  5. Lamentations 2:6 Or feast
  6. Lamentations 2:7 I.e., scornfully rejected
  7. Lamentations 2:8 Lit engulfing
  8. Lamentations 2:10 Another reading is wail
  9. Lamentations 2:11 Lit inward parts are in ferment
  10. Lamentations 2:11 Lit liver
  11. Lamentations 2:11 Lit breaking
  12. Lamentations 2:12 Lit on...breast
  13. Lamentations 2:15 Or whistle
  14. Lamentations 2:16 Or whistle
  15. Lamentations 2:17 Lit horn
  16. Lamentations 2:18 Lit the daughter of your eye
  17. Lamentations 2:20 Lit fruit
  18. Lamentations 2:20 Or tenderly cared for

Cross references

  1. Lamentations 2:1 : Ezek 30:18
  2. Lamentations 2:1 : Is 14:12-15; Ezek 28:14-16
  3. Lamentations 2:1 : Is 64:11
  4. Lamentations 2:1 : Ps 99:5; 132:7
  5. Lamentations 2:2 : Ps 21:9; Lam 3:43
  6. Lamentations 2:2 : Lam 2:5; Mic 5:11, 14
  7. Lamentations 2:2 : Is 25:12; 26:5
  8. Lamentations 2:2 : Ps 89:39, 40; Is 43:28
  9. Lamentations 2:3 : Ps 75:5, 10; Jer 48:25
  10. Lamentations 2:3 : Ps 74:11; Jer 21:4, 5
  11. Lamentations 2:3 : Is 42:25; Jer 21:14
  12. Lamentations 2:4 : Job 6:4; 16:13; Lam 3:12, 13
  13. Lamentations 2:4 : Ezek 24:25
  14. Lamentations 2:4 : Is 42:25; Jer 7:20
  15. Lamentations 2:5 : Jer 30:14
  16. Lamentations 2:5 : Lam 2:2
  17. Lamentations 2:5 : Jer 52:13; Lam 2:2
  18. Lamentations 2:5 : Jer 9:17-20
  19. Lamentations 2:6 : Jer 52:13
  20. Lamentations 2:6 : Jer 17:27; Lam 1:4; Zeph 3:18
  21. Lamentations 2:6 : Lam 4:16
  22. Lamentations 2:7 : Ps 78:59-61; Is 64:11; Ezek 7:20-22
  23. Lamentations 2:7 : Jer 33:4, 5; 52:13
  24. Lamentations 2:7 : Ps 74:3-8
  25. Lamentations 2:8 : 2 Kin 21:13; Is 34:11; Amos 7:7-9
  26. Lamentations 2:8 : Is 3:26; Jer 14:2
  27. Lamentations 2:9 : Neh 1:3
  28. Lamentations 2:9 : Hos 3:4
  29. Lamentations 2:9 : Jer 14:14; 23:16; Ezek 7:26
  30. Lamentations 2:10 : Job 2:13; Is 3:26; 47:1
  31. Lamentations 2:10 : Amos 8:3
  32. Lamentations 2:10 : Job 2:12; Ezek 27:30
  33. Lamentations 2:10 : Is 15:3; Jon 3:6-8
  34. Lamentations 2:10 : Lam 1:4
  35. Lamentations 2:11 : Lam 1:16; 3:48, 51
  36. Lamentations 2:11 : Jer 4:19
  37. Lamentations 2:11 : Job 16:13
  38. Lamentations 2:11 : Is 22:4; Lam 4:10
  39. Lamentations 2:11 : Jer 44:7; Lam 2:19
  40. Lamentations 2:12 : Jer 5:17
  41. Lamentations 2:12 : Job 30:16; Ps 42:4; 62:8
  42. Lamentations 2:13 : Lam 1:12
  43. Lamentations 2:13 : Is 37:22
  44. Lamentations 2:13 : Jer 8:22; 30:12-15
  45. Lamentations 2:14 : Jer 23:25-29; 29:8, 9
  46. Lamentations 2:14 : Is 58:1; Ezek 23:36; Mic 3:8
  47. Lamentations 2:14 : Jer 23:36; Ezek 22:25, 28
  48. Lamentations 2:15 : Job 27:23; Ezek 25:6
  49. Lamentations 2:15 : Ps 22:7; Is 37:22; Jer 18:16; 19:8; Zeph 2:15
  50. Lamentations 2:15 : Ps 50:2
  51. Lamentations 2:15 : Ps 48:2
  52. Lamentations 2:16 : Job 16:10; Ps 22:13; Lam 3:46
  53. Lamentations 2:16 : Job 16:9; Ps 35:16; 37:12
  54. Lamentations 2:16 : Ps 56:2; 124:3; Jer 51:34
  55. Lamentations 2:16 : Obad 12-15
  56. Lamentations 2:17 : Jer 4:28
  57. Lamentations 2:17 : Lam 2:1, 2; Ezek 5:11; 7:8, 9; 8:18
  58. Lamentations 2:17 : Ps 35:24, 26; 89:42; Is 14:29
  59. Lamentations 2:17 : Deut 28:43, 44; Lam 1:5
  60. Lamentations 2:18 : Ps 119:145; Hos 7:14
  61. Lamentations 2:18 : Lam 2:8; Hab 2:11
  62. Lamentations 2:18 : Ps 119:136; Jer 9:1; Lam 1:2, 16; 3:48, 49
  63. Lamentations 2:19 : Ps 42:3; Is 26:9
  64. Lamentations 2:19 : 1 Sam 1:15; Ps 42:4; 62:8
  65. Lamentations 2:19 : Lam 2:11
  66. Lamentations 2:19 : Is 51:20
  67. Lamentations 2:20 : Ex 32:11; Deut 9:26
  68. Lamentations 2:20 : Jer 19:9; Lam 4:10
  69. Lamentations 2:20 : Ps 78:64; Jer 14:15; 23:11, 12
  70. Lamentations 2:21 : 2 Chr 36:17; Jer 6:11
  71. Lamentations 2:21 : Ps 78:62, 63
  72. Lamentations 2:21 : Jer 13:14; Zech 11:6
  73. Lamentations 2:22 : Ps 31:13; Is 24:17; Jer 6:25
  74. Lamentations 2:22 : Jer 11:11
  75. Lamentations 2:22 : Jer 16:2-4; 44:7

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