Lamentations 2:6

"The Lord has become as an enemy. He has swallowed up Israel. He has swallowed up all her palaces. He has destroyed his strongholds. He has multiplied mourning and lamentation in the daughter of Judah."

Key Reflection

This passage portrays a devastating image where God's presence feels like an enemy, symbolizing the extreme suffering and loss experienced by the people of Israel. The destruction of their strongholds and palaces, along with the multiplication of mourning and lamentation, suggests a profound sense of vulnerability and despair, reflecting the catastrophic effects of Judah’s exile and the devastating fall of Jerusalem.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

tabernacle -Or, covertJeremiah 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.”” CompareIsaiah 1:8. His places of the assembly -Or, “His great festivals” (Lamentations 1:15note). 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 longerאדני'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.

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