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Lamentations Chapter 2

Lamentations
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Lamentations

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The chapter describes the sorrow of Jerusalem as its walls are breached and the city is overrun by the enemy. It reflects on the people’s grief, the loss of their homes and the failure of their leaders to protect them. The passage urges the nation to mourn and trust that God will bring restoration.

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(1) 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 1:1Lamentations 4:1Lamentations 3:43Lamentations 3:44Ezekiel 30:18Ezekiel 32:7Ezekiel 32:8Joel 2:2Isaiah 14:12Isaiah 14:13Isaiah 14:14Isaiah 14:15

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Jeremiah 8:19Luke 12:53Deuteronomy 32:21II Chronicles 25:10Isaiah 5:25Jeremiah 3:12

(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.
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Lamentations 2:17Lamentations 2:21Lamentations 3:43Job 2:3Psalms 21:9Isaiah 27:11Jeremiah 13:14Jeremiah 21:7Ezekiel 5:11Ezekiel 7:4Ezekiel 7:9Ezekiel 8:18

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Lamentations 2:5Luke 12:53Isaiah 28:7Isaiah 47:1Lamentations 2:10Genesis 36:2

(3) 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.
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Job 16:15Psalms 75:5Psalms 75:10Psalms 89:24Psalms 132:17Jeremiah 48:25Luke 1:69Psalms 74:11Deuteronomy 32:22Psalms 79:5Psalms 89:46Isaiah 1:31

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Jeremiah 4:8Jeremiah 46:5I Kings 6:5Isaiah 42:25Lamentations 2:22Ezekiel 46:23

(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 2:5Lamentations 3:3Lamentations 3:12Lamentations 3:13Job 6:4Job 16:12Job 16:13Job 16:14Isaiah 63:10Jeremiah 21:5Jeremiah 30:14Ezekiel 24:25

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Luke 12:53Jeremiah 42:18Luke 6:42II Chronicles 22:11Jeremiah 6:23Zechariah 9:13

(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.
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Lamentations 2:4Jeremiah 15:1Jeremiah 30:14Lamentations 2:2II Kings 25:9II Chronicles 36:16II Chronicles 36:17Jeremiah 52:13Ezekiel 2:10

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Lamentations 2:2Isaiah 28:7Luke 12:53Ezekiel 26:17Amos 2:9Genesis 36:2

(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.
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Psalms 80:12Psalms 89:40Isaiah 5:5Isaiah 63:18Isaiah 64:11Isaiah 1:8Lamentations 1:4Zephaniah 3:18Lamentations 4:16Lamentations 4:20Lamentations 5:12Isaiah 43:28

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Isaiah 51:3Lamentations 2:1Joel 2:15Exodus 33:7Numbers 1:50Numbers 3:25

(7) The Lord hath cast off his altar, he hath abhorred his sanctuary, he hath given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces; they have made a noise in the house of the LORD, as in the day of a solemn feast.
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Lamentations 2:1Leviticus 26:31Leviticus 26:44Psalms 78:59Psalms 78:60Psalms 78:61Isaiah 64:10Isaiah 64:11Jeremiah 7:12Jeremiah 7:13Jeremiah 7:14Jeremiah 26:6

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II Chronicles 8:13Deuteronomy 16:16II Kings 7:6Ezra 3:13Ezekiel 1:24Ezekiel 3:13

(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 2:17Isaiah 5:5Jeremiah 5:10II Samuel 8:2II Kings 21:13Isaiah 28:17Isaiah 34:11Amos 7:7Amos 7:8Job 13:21Ezekiel 20:22Lamentations 2:2

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II Chronicles 26:6I Kings 6:27Lamentations 2:18Luke 12:53Numbers 22:24Numbers 22:25

(9) Her gates are sunk into the ground; he hath destroyed and broken her bars: her king and her princes are among the Gentiles: the law is no more; her prophets also find no vision from the LORD.
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Nehemiah 1:3Jeremiah 39:2Jeremiah 39:8Jeremiah 51:30Jeremiah 52:14Lamentations 1:3Lamentations 4:15Lamentations 4:20Deuteronomy 28:36II Kings 24:12II Kings 24:13II Kings 24:14

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Revelation 21:13Genesis 7:23Psalms 107:16Ecclesiastes 12:6Isaiah 8:9John 7:35

(10) The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, and keep silence: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.
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Lamentations 4:5Lamentations 4:16Lamentations 5:12Lamentations 5:14Job 2:13Isaiah 3:26Isaiah 47:1Isaiah 47:5Lamentations 1:1Lamentations 3:28Jeremiah 8:14Amos 5:13

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Isaiah 47:1Isaiah 29:4Genesis 3:19Exodus 4:3Deuteronomy 9:21Joshua 3:17

(11) Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.
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Lamentations 1:16Lamentations 3:48Lamentations 3:49Lamentations 3:50Lamentations 3:51I Samuel 30:4Psalms 6:7Psalms 31:9Psalms 69:3Isaiah 38:14Lamentations 1:20Jeremiah 4:19

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Luke 12:53Genesis 36:2Leviticus 18:17

(12) They say to their mothers, Where is corn and wine? when they swooned as the wounded in the streets of the city, when their soul was poured out into their mothers' bosom.
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Ezekiel 30:24Isaiah 53:12

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Mark 2:22Matthew 9:17Exodus 4:7

(13) What thing shall I take to witness for thee? what thing shall I liken to thee, O daughter of Jerusalem? what shall I equal to thee, that I may comfort thee, O virgin daughter of Zion? for thy breach is great like the sea: who can heal thee?
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Lamentations 1:12Daniel 9:12II Samuel 5:20Psalms 60:2Jeremiah 14:17Ezekiel 26:3Ezekiel 26:4Jeremiah 8:22Jeremiah 30:12Jeremiah 30:13Jeremiah 30:14Jeremiah 30:15

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Luke 12:53Genesis 36:2Leviticus 18:17II Kings 19:21Isaiah 37:22Isaiah 47:1

(14) Thy prophets have seen vain and foolish things for thee: and they have not discovered thine iniquity, to turn away thy captivity; but have seen for thee false burdens and causes of banishment.
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Isaiah 9:15Isaiah 9:16Jeremiah 2:8Jeremiah 5:31Jeremiah 6:13Jeremiah 6:14Jeremiah 8:10Jeremiah 8:11Jeremiah 14:13Jeremiah 14:14Jeremiah 14:15Jeremiah 23:11

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Ezekiel 16:53Lamentations 4:22Ezekiel 33:9Malachi 2:6I Samuel 12:21II Kings 17:13

(15) All that pass by clap their hands at thee; they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city that men call The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?
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Deuteronomy 29:22Deuteronomy 29:23Deuteronomy 29:24Deuteronomy 29:25Deuteronomy 29:26Deuteronomy 29:27Deuteronomy 29:28I Kings 9:7I Kings 9:8I Kings 9:9II Chronicles 7:21Jeremiah 18:16

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Luke 12:53Matthew 9:22Mark 5:34Genesis 36:2Leviticus 18:17Isaiah 9:3

(16) All thine enemies have opened their mouth against thee: they hiss and gnash the teeth: they say, We have swallowed her up: certainly this is the day that we looked for; we have found, we have seen it.
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Lamentations 3:46Job 16:9Job 16:10Psalms 22:13Psalms 35:21Psalms 109:2Psalms 35:16Psalms 37:12Psalms 112:10Acts 7:54Psalms 56:2Psalms 57:3

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Joel 1:6

(17) The LORD hath done that which he had devised; he hath fulfilled his word that he had commanded in the days of old: he hath thrown down, and hath not pitied: and he hath caused thine enemy to rejoice over thee, he hath set up the horn of thine adversaries.
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Lamentations 2:8Leviticus 26:14Leviticus 26:15Leviticus 26:16Leviticus 26:17Leviticus 26:18Leviticus 26:19Leviticus 26:20Leviticus 26:21Leviticus 26:22Leviticus 26:23Leviticus 26:24

(18) Their heart cried unto the Lord, O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night: give thyself no rest; let not the apple of thine eye cease.
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Psalms 119:145Isaiah 26:16Isaiah 26:17Hosea 7:14Lamentations 2:8Habakkuk 2:11Lamentations 1:2Lamentations 1:16Lamentations 3:48Lamentations 3:49Psalms 119:136Jeremiah 4:31

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Jeremiah 14:17Lamentations 2:8Luke 12:53Luke 6:42I Samuel 19:10II Samuel 21:10

(19) Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out thine heart like water before the face of the Lord: lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger in the top of every street.
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Psalms 42:8Psalms 62:8Psalms 119:55Psalms 119:147Psalms 119:148Isaiah 26:9Mark 1:35Luke 6:12Judges 7:19Matthew 14:25Mark 13:35I Samuel 1:15

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I Kings 8:29I Kings 7:25II Chronicles 4:4Ezekiel 48:10Ezekiel 48:17Zechariah 14:4

(20) Behold, O LORD, and consider to whom thou hast done this. Shall the women eat their fruit, and children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?
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Exodus 32:11Deuteronomy 9:26Isaiah 63:16Isaiah 63:17Isaiah 63:18Isaiah 63:19Isaiah 64:8Isaiah 64:9Isaiah 64:10Isaiah 64:11Isaiah 64:12Jeremiah 14:20

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Ezekiel 47:12Deuteronomy 28:4Deuteronomy 28:11Deuteronomy 30:9Matthew 12:33John 15:2

(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.
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Deuteronomy 28:50Joshua 6:21I Samuel 15:3II Chronicles 36:17Esther 3:13Jeremiah 51:22Ezekiel 9:6Lamentations 1:15Lamentations 1:18Psalms 78:63Jeremiah 9:21Jeremiah 11:22

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Deuteronomy 22:6Numbers 23:24Numbers 8:8Judges 9:54Ruth 2:9I Samuel 25:5

(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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Psalms 31:13Isaiah 24:17Isaiah 24:18Jeremiah 6:25Jeremiah 20:3Jeremiah 46:5Amos 9:1Amos 9:2Amos 9:3Amos 9:4Deuteronomy 28:18Jeremiah 16:2

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I Kings 6:5Lamentations 2:3Ezekiel 46:23Numbers 32:13Zephaniah 2:2

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