Lamentations 2:1
Holman Christian Standard Bible
Judgment on Jerusalem
א Alef
2 How the Lord has overshadowed
Daughter Zion with His anger!
He has thrown down Israel’s glory
from heaven to earth.
He has abandoned His footstool[a](A)
in the day of His anger.(B)
Footnotes
- Lamentations 2:1 Either the ark of the covenant or the temple
Lamentations 2:1
New International Version
Footnotes
- Lamentations 2:1 This chapter is an acrostic poem, the verses of which begin with the successive letters of the Hebrew alphabet.
- Lamentations 2:1 Or How the Lord in his anger / has treated Daughter Zion with contempt
Lamentations 2:1
King James Version
2 How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger, and cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel, and remembered not his footstool in the day of his anger!
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Lamentations 2:4
Holman Christian Standard Bible
ד Dalet
4 He has bent His bow like an enemy;(A)
His right hand is positioned like an adversary.
He has killed everyone who was loved,[a]
pouring out His wrath like fire
on the tent of Daughter Zion.
Footnotes
- Lamentations 2:4 Lit killed all the delights of the eye; Ezk 24:16
Lamentations 2:4
King James Version
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.
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Lamentations 2:8
Holman Christian Standard Bible
ח Khet
8 The Lord determined to destroy
the wall of Daughter Zion.
He stretched out a measuring line(A)
and did not restrain Himself from destroying.
He made the ramparts and walls grieve;
together they waste away.
Lamentations 2:8
New International Version
Lamentations 2:8
King James Version
8 The Lord hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion: he hath stretched out a line, he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying: therefore he made the rampart and the wall to lament; they languished together.
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Lamentations 4:22
Holman Christian Standard Bible
ת Tav
22 Daughter Zion, your punishment is complete;
He will not lengthen your exile.[a]
But He will punish your iniquity, Daughter Edom,
and will expose your sins.(A)
Footnotes
- Lamentations 4:22 Or not deport you again
Lamentations 4:22
New International Version
Lamentations 4:22
King James Version
22 The punishment of thine iniquity is accomplished, O daughter of Zion; he will no more carry thee away into captivity: he will visit thine iniquity, O daughter of Edom; he will discover thy sins.
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