Lamentations 2:5
Lamentations · Old Testament · Chapter 2
“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
What Does Lamentations 2:5 Mean?
Lamentations 2:5 is found in the book of Lamentations, chapter 2, verse 5 of the Old Testament. This verse connects to 20 other passages through cross-references, placing it within a rich network of biblical meaning.
Cross-References (20)
These passages are connected to Lamentations 2:5 through shared themes, quotations, or prophetic fulfillment.
Job 13:24“Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy?”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.”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.”Psalms 89:40“Thou hast broken down all his hedges; thou hast brought his strong holds to ruin.”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.”Deuteronomy 32:42“I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh; and that with the blood of the slain and of the captives, from the beginning of revenges upon the enemy.”Psalms 56:1“Be merciful unto me, O God: for man would swallow me up; he fighting daily oppresseth me.”Jeremiah 21:4“Thus saith the LORD God of Israel; Behold, I will turn back the weapons of war that are in your hands, wherewith ye fight against the king of Babylon, and against the Chaldeans, which besiege you without the walls, and I will assemble them into the midst of this city.”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.”Deuteronomy 32:43“Rejoice, O ye nations, with his people: for he will avenge the blood of his servants, and will render vengeance to his adversaries, and will be merciful unto his land, and to his people.”1 Samuel 28:16“Then said Samuel, Wherefore then dost thou ask of me, seeing the LORD is departed from thee, and is become thine enemy?”2 Samuel 20:19“I am one of them that are peaceable and faithful in Israel: thou seekest to destroy a city and a mother in Israel: why wilt thou swallow up the inheritance of the LORD?”2 Chronicles 36:16“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.”Job 19:10“He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree.”Job 19:11“He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him as one of his enemies.”Proverbs 1:12“Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:”Isaiah 27:10“Yet the defenced city shall be desolate, and the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof.”Isaiah 29:2“Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be heaviness and sorrow: and it shall be unto me as Ariel.”Jeremiah 9:17“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:”
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