Lamentations 2:3

Translations

Modern

In fierce anger He has cut off every horn of Israel and withdrawn His right hand at the approach of the enemy. He has burned in Jacob like a flaming fire that consumes everything around it.

Traditional

He hath cut off in his fierce anger all the horn of Israel: he hath drawn back his right hand from before the enemy, and he burned against Jacob like a flaming fire, which devoureth round about.

Literal

He has cut off in the burning of His anger every horn of Israel; He has turned back His right hand from before the enemy, and He has blazed against Jacob like a fire of flame, devouring all around!

Latin

Confregit in ira furoris sui omne cornu Israël; avertit retrorsum dexteram suam a facie inimici, et succendit in Jacob quasi ignem flammæ devorantis in gyro.

Original

Hebrew

English

In fierce anger He has cut off every horn of Israel and withdrawn His right hand at the approach of the enemy. He has burned in Jacob like a flaming fire that consumes everything around it.

Notes

Lamentations 2:3–4

bent His bow: In the past, the Lord had been a powerful warrior for Israel (see Exodus 14:13–15:21; Joshua 23:9–11; Judges 7; 2 Kings 19:32–35). Now he waged war against Jerusalem (see Isaiah 63:10; Ezekiel 24:25).

Lamentations 2:1–22

This chapter vividly shows the Lord acting as the one who destroys Jerusalem.

Related verses

Psalm 74:11
Why do You withdraw Your strong right hand? Stretch it out to destroy them!
Psalm 75:10
“All the horns of the wicked I will cut off, but the horns of the righteous will be exalted.”
Psalm 75:5
Do not lift up your horn against heaven or speak with an outstretched neck.’”
Isaiah 42:25
So He poured out on them His furious anger and the fierceness of battle. It enveloped them in flames, but they did not understand; it consumed them, but they did not take it to heart.
Psalm 79:5
How long, O LORD? Will You be angry forever? Will Your jealousy burn like fire?
Jeremiah 48:25
The horn of Moab has been cut off, and his arm is broken,” declares the LORD.
Psalm 89:46
How long, O LORD? Will You hide Yourself forever? Will Your wrath keep burning like fire?
Job 16:15
I have sewn sackcloth over my skin; I have buried my horn in the dust.
Luke 1:69
He has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of His servant David,
Jeremiah 21:4–5
…this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘I will turn against you the weapons of war in your hands, with which you are fighting the king of Babylon and the Chaldeans who besiege you outside the wall, and I will assemble their forces in the center of this city.
Jeremiah 4:4
Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and remove the foreskins of your hearts, O men of Judah and people of Jerusalem. Otherwise, My wrath will break out like fire and burn with no one to extinguish it, because of your evil deeds.”
Malachi 4:1
“For behold, the day is coming, burning like a furnace, when all the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble; the day is coming when I will set them ablaze,” says the LORD of Hosts. “Not a root or branch will be left to them.”

People

Israel: Patriarch, son of Isaac, father of twelve tribes

Glossary

Acrostic Lamentations, Book of Poetry, Biblical

Topics

Anger: Anger of God Horns: (Cutting off) of Destruction of Power

Lamentations 2:3

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