Lamentations 2 · Verse 5

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 2:5, King James Version

Lamentations 2:5 in other translations

BSBThe Lord is like an enemy; He has swallowed up Israel. He has swallowed up all her palaces and destroyed her strongholds. He has multiplied mourning and lamentation for the Daughter of Judah.
WEBThe 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.
ASVThe Lord is become as an enemy, he hath swallowed up Israel; He hath swallowed up all her palaces, he hath destroyed his strongholds; And he hath multiplied in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.
YLTThe Lord hath been as an enemy, He hath swallowed up Israel, He hath swallowed up all her palaces, He hath destroyed His fortresses, And He multiplieth in the daughter of Judah Mourning and moaning.
DARBYThe Lord is become as an enemy: he hath swallowed up Israel; he hath swallowed up all her palaces; he hath destroyed his strongholds, and hath multiplied in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.
BBEThe Lord has become like one fighting against her, sending destruction on Israel; he has sent destruction on all her great houses, making waste his strong places: increasing the grief and the sorrow of the daughter of Judah.
WebsterThe 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.

What does Lamentations 2:5 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
5. an enemy--(Jr 30:14). mourning and lamentation--There is a play of similar sounds in the original, "sorrow and sadness," to heighten the effect (Job 30:3, Hebrew; Eze 35:3, Margin). Vau.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Lamentations 2:1-9

Lamentation for the misery of Jerusalem. Verses 1-9 A sad representation is here made of the state of God's church, of Jacob and Israel; but the notice seems mostly to refer to the hand of the Lord in their calamities. Yet God is not an enemy to his people, when he is angry with them and corrects them. And gates and bars stand in no stead when God withdraws his protection. It is just with God to cast down those by…

Read the full comment on Lamentations 2:1-9 →

Lamentations 2:5 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.

הָיָ֨הha.Yahhe has becomeH1961
אֲדֹנָ֤י\׀'a.do.Nai[the] LordH136
כְּאוֹיֵב֙ke.'o.Yevlike an enemyH341
בִּלַּ֣עbi.La'he has swallowed upH1104
יִשְׂרָאֵ֔לYis.ra.'ElIsraelH3478
בִּלַּע֙bi.La'he has swallowed upH1104
כָּל\־kol-allH3605
אַרְמְנוֹתֶ֔יהָ'ar.me.no.Tei.hapalaces itsH759
שִׁחֵ֖תshi.Chethe has ruinedH7843
מִבְצָרָ֑יוmiv.tza.Ravfortifications itsH4013
וַיֶּ֙רֶב֙vai.Ye.revand he has multipliedH7235
בְּבַת\־be.vat-in [the] daughter ofH1323
יְהוּדָ֔הye.hu.DahJudahH3063
תַּאֲנִיָּ֖הta.'a.ni.YahmourningH8386
וַאֲנִיָּֽה\׃\ \סva.'a.ni.Yahand lamentationH592

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Lamentations 2:5

  • Lamentations 2:2

    The Lord hath swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and hath not pitied: he hath thrown down in his wrath the strong holds of the daughter of Judah; he hath brought them down to the ground: he hath polluted the kingdom and the princes thereof.

  • Jeremiah 30:14

    All thy lovers have forgotten thee; they seek thee not; for I have wounded thee with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one, for the multitude of thine iniquity; because thy sins were increased.

  • 2 Kings 25:9

    And he burnt the house of the Lord, and the king’s house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, and every great man’s house burnt he with fire.

  • Jeremiah 52:13

    And burned the house of the Lord, and the king’s house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, and all the houses of the great men, burned he with fire:

  • Lamentations 2:4

    He hath bent his bow like an enemy: he stood with his right hand as an adversary, and slew all that were pleasant to the eye in the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion: he poured out his fury like fire.

  • Jeremiah 15:1

    Then said the Lord unto me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind could not be toward this people: cast them out of my sight, and let them go forth.

  • Ezekiel 2:10

    And he spread it before me; and it was written within and without: and there was written therein lamentations, and mourning, and woe.

  • 2 Chronicles 36:16-17

    But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the Lord arose against his people, till there was no remedy. Therefore he brought upon them the king of the Chaldees, who slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion upon young man or maiden, old man, or him that stooped for age: he gave them all into his hand.

  • Jeremiah 9:17-20

    Thus saith the Lord of hosts, Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for cunning women, that they may come: And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters. For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast us out. Yet hear the word of the Lord, O ye women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and every one her neighbour lamentation.

Ranked by reader votes · OpenBible.info cross references (CC BY).

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
was.
4; Jer 15:1; 30:14
he hath swallowed up Israel.
2; 2Ki 25:9; 2Ch 36:16,17; Jer 52:13
mourning.
Eze 2:10

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Lamentations 2:4

    He hath bent his bow like an enemy: he stood with his right hand as an adversary, and slew all that were pleasant to the eye in the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion: he poured out his fury like fire.

  • 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 2:6

    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.

Read all of Lamentations 2

Lamentations 2:5 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Fué el Señor como enemigo, destruyó á Israel; destruyó todos sus palacios, disipó sus fortalezas: y multiplicó en la hija de Judá la tristeza y lamento.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Le Seigneur a été comme un ennemi; il a englouti Israël; il a englouti tous ses palais, il a détruit ses forteresses, et il a multiplié chez la fille de Juda le gémissement et la plainte.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Der Herr ist wie ein Feind geworden, er hat Israel vernichtet, vernichtet alle ihre Paläste, seine Festen zerstört; und bei der Tochter Juda hat er Seufzen und Stöhnen gemehrt.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Factus est Dominus velut inimicus, præcipitavit Israël: præcipitavit omnia mœnia ejus, dissipavit munitiones ejus, et replevit in filia Juda humiliatum et humiliatam.