Lamentations 2 · Verse 22

Lamentations 2:22

Thou hast called as in a solemn day my terrors round about, so that in the day of the Lord’s anger none escaped nor remained: those that I have swaddled and brought up hath mine enemy consumed.
Lamentations 2:22, King James Version

Lamentations 2:22 in other translations

BSBYou summoned my attackers on every side, as for the day of an appointed feast. In the day of the LORD’s anger no one escaped or survived; my enemy has destroyed those I nurtured and reared.
WEB“You have called, as in the day of a solemn assembly, my terrors on every side. There was no one that escaped or remained in the day of the LORD’s anger. My enemy has consumed those whom I have cared for and brought up.
ASVThou hast called, as in the day of a solemn assembly, my terrors on every side; And there was none that escaped or remained in the day of Jehovah’s anger: Those that I have dandled and brought up hath mine enemy consumed.
YLTThou dost call as at a day of appointment, My fears from round about, And there hath not been in the day of the anger of Jehovah, An escaped and remaining one, They whom I stretched out and nourished, My enemy hath consumed!
DARBYThou hast called up, as on the day of a set feast, my terrors on every side; and in the day of Jehovah's anger there was none that escaped or remained: those that I have nursed and brought up hath mine enemy consumed.
BBEAs in the day of a holy meeting you have made fears come round me on every side, and no one got away or was kept safe in the day of the Lord's wrath: those who were folded in my arms, whom I took care of, have been sent to their destruction by my hater.
WebsterThou hast called as in a solemn day my terrors around, so that in the day of the LORD'S anger none escaped nor remained: those that I have swaddled and brought up, hath my enemy consumed.

What does Lamentations 2:22 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
22. Thou hast called as in ... solemn day ... terrors--Thou hast summoned my enemies against me from all quarters, just as multitudes used to be convened to Jerusalem, on the solemn feast days. The objects, for which the enemies and the festal multitude respectively met, formed a sad contrast. Compare La 1:15: "called an assembly against me."

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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 22 Thou hast called as in a solemn day - It is by thy influence alone that so many enemies are called together at one time; and they have so hemmed us in that none could escape, and none remained unslain or uncaptivated, Perhaps the figure is the collecting of the people in Jerusalem on one of the solemn annual festivals. God has called terrors together to feast on Jerusalem, similar to the convocation of the people from all parts of the land to one of those annual festivals. The indiscriminate slaughter of young and old, priest and prophet, all ranks and conditions, may be illustrated by the following verses from Lucan, which appear as if a translation of the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first verses of this chapter: - Nobilitas cum plebe perit; lateque vagatur Ensis, et a nullo revocatum est pectore ferrum. Stat cruor in Templis; multaque rubentia caede Lubrica saxa madent. Nulli sua profuit aetas. Non senes extremum piguit vergentibus annis Praecipitasse diem; nec primo in limine vitae, Infanti miseri nascentia rumpere fata. Pharsal. lib. ii., 101. "With what a slide devouring slaughter passed, And swept promiscuous orders in her haste; O'er noble and plebeian ranged the sword, Nor pity nor remorse one pause afford! The sliding streets with blood were clotted o'er, And sacred temples stood in pools of gore. The ruthless steel, impatient of delay, Forbade the sire to linger out his day: It struck the bending father to the earth, And cropped the wailing infant at its birth." Rowe.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Lamentations 2:10-22

Causes for lamentation are described. Multitudes perished by famine. Even little children were slain by their mother's hands, and eaten, according to the threatening, Deut. 28:53. Multitudes fell by the sword. Their false prophets deceived them. And their neighbours laughed at them. It is a great sin to jest at others' miseries, and adds much affliction to the afflicted. Their enemies triumphed over them. The…

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Lamentations 2:22 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

תִּקְרָא֩tik.Ra'you have summonedH7121
כְי֨וֹםkhe.Yomlike [the] day ofH3117
מוֹעֵ֤דmo.'Edan appointed feastH4150
מְגוּרַי֙me.gu.Raiterrors myH4032
מִסָּבִ֔יבmi.sa.Vivfrom round aboutH5439
וְלֹ֥אve.Lo'and notH3808
הָיָ֛הha.Yahhe wasH1961
בְּי֥וֹםbe.Yomin [the] day ofH3117
אַף\־'af-[the] anger ofH639
יְהוָ֖הYah.wehYahwehH3068
פָּלִ֣יטpa.Litan escapeeH6412
וְשָׂרִ֑ידve.sa.Ridand a survivorH8300
אֲשֶׁר\־'a.Sher-[those] whomH834
טִפַּ֥חְתִּיti.Pach.tiI had given birthH2946
וְרִבִּ֖יתִיve.ri.Bi.tiand I had rearedH7235
אֹיְבִ֥י'o.ye.Vienemy myH341
כִלָּֽם\׃\ \פkhi.Lamhe has made an end of themH3615

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Cross references for Lamentations 2:22

  • Jeremiah 6:25

    Go not forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy and fear is on every side.

  • Psalms 31:13

    For I have heard the slander of many: fear was on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.

  • Jeremiah 20:3

    And it came to pass on the morrow, that Pashur brought forth Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then said Jeremiah unto him, The Lord hath not called thy name Pashur, but Magor–missabib.

  • Jeremiah 16:2-4

    Thou shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou have sons or daughters in this place. For thus saith the Lord concerning the sons and concerning the daughters that are born in this place, and concerning their mothers that bare them, and concerning their fathers that begat them in this land; They shall die of grievous deaths; they shall not be lamented; neither shall they be buried; but they shall be as dung upon the face of the earth: and they shall be consumed by the sword, and by famine; and their carcases shall be meat for the fowls of heaven, and for the beasts of the earth.

  • Isaiah 24:17-18

    Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth. And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake.

  • Deuteronomy 28:18

    Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.

  • Jeremiah 46:5

    Wherefore have I seen them dismayed and turned away back? and their mighty ones are beaten down, and are fled apace, and look not back: for fear was round about, saith the Lord.

  • Hosea 9:12-16

    Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, that there shall not be a man left: yea, woe also to them when I depart from them! Ephraim, as I saw Tyrus, is planted in a pleasant place: but Ephraim shall bring forth his children to the murderer. Give them, O Lord: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts. All their wickedness is in Gilgal: for there I hated them: for the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of mine house, I will love them no more: all their princes are revolters. …

  • Amos 9:1-4

    I saw the Lord standing upon the altar: and he said, Smite the lintel of the door, that the posts may shake: and cut them in the head, all of them; and I will slay the last of them with the sword: he that fleeth of them shall not flee away, and he that escapeth of them shall not be delivered. Though they dig into hell, thence shall mine hand take them; though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down: And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence; and though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, thence will I command the serpent, and he shall bite them: And though they go into captivity before their enemies, thence will I command the sword, and it shall slay them: and I will set mine eyes upon them for evil, and not for good.

  • Luke 23:29-30

    For, behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck. Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us; and to the hills, Cover us.

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my terrors.
Ps 31:13; Isa 24:17,18; Jer 6:25; 20:3; 46:5; Am 9:1-4
those.
De 28:18; Jer 16:2-4; Ho 9:12-16; Lu 23:29,30

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Context

  • 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.

  • Lamentations 2:22

    Thou hast called as in a solemn day my terrors round about, so that in the day of the Lord’s anger none escaped nor remained: those that I have swaddled and brought up hath mine enemy consumed.

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Lamentations 2:22 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Has llamado, como á día de solemnidad, mis temores de todas partes; y en el día del furor de Jehová no hubo quien escapase ni quedase vivo: los que crié y mantuve, mi enemigo los acabó.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Tu as convoqué, comme en un jour de fête solennelle, mes terreurs de toutes parts; et au jour de la colère de l’ Éternel, il n’y a eu ni réchappé, ni reste: ceux dont j’avais pris soin et que j’avais élevés, mon ennemi les a consumés.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Meine Schrecknisse hast du von allen Seiten herbeigerufen wie an einem Festtage, und nicht einer entrann oder blieb übrig am Tage des Zornes Jehovas; die ich auf den Händen getragen und erzogen habe, mein Feind hat sie vernichtet.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Vocasti quasi ad diem solemnem, qui terrerent me de circuitu; et non fuit in die furoris Domini qui effugeret, et relinqueretur: quos educavi et enutrivi, inimicus meus consumpsit eos.