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class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New King James Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nkjv/kjv/lamentations/2.shtml" style=color:#001320 title=Parallel Chapters> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"> <h3>God’s Anger with Jerusalem</span></h3><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="chapter-1"><span class="text Lam-2-1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/2-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>How the Lord has covered the daughter of Zion</span></span><br /><span class="text Lam-2-1">With a cloud in His anger!</span><br /><span class="text Lam-2-1">He cast down from heaven to the earth</span><br /><span class="text Lam-2-1">The beauty of Israel,</span><br /><span class="text Lam-2-1">And did not remember His footstool</span><br /><span class="text Lam-2-1">In the day of His anger.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/2-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>The Lord has swallowed up and has not pitied</span><br /><span class="text Lam-2-2">All the dwelling places of Jacob.</span><br /><span class="text Lam-2-2">He has thrown down in His wrath</span><br /><span class="text Lam-2-2">The strongholds of the daughter of Judah;</span><br /><span class="text Lam-2-2">He has brought <i>them</i> down to the ground;</span><br /><span class="text Lam-2-2">He has profaned the kingdom and its princes.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/2-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>He has cut off in fierce anger</span><br /><span class="text Lam-2-3">Every <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[a]</a></span>horn of Israel;</span><br /><span class="text Lam-2-3">He has drawn back His right hand</span><br /><span class="text Lam-2-3">From before the enemy.</span><br /><span class="text Lam-2-3">He has blazed against Jacob like a flaming fire</span><br /><span class="text Lam-2-3">Devouring all around.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/2-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Standing like an enemy, He has bent His bow;</span><br /><span class="text Lam-2-4">With His right hand, like an adversary,</span><br /><span class="text Lam-2-4">He has slain all <i>who were</i> pleasing to His eye;</span><br /><span class="text Lam-2-4">On the tent of the daughter of Zion,</span><br /><span class="text Lam-2-4">He has poured out His fury like fire.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/2-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>The Lord was like an enemy.</span><br /><span class="text Lam-2-5">He has swallowed up Israel,</span><br /><span class="text Lam-2-5">He has swallowed up all her palaces;</span><br /><span class="text Lam-2-5">He has destroyed her strongholds,</span><br /><span class="text Lam-2-5">And has increased mourning and lamentation</span><br /><span class="text Lam-2-5">In the daughter of Judah.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/2-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>He has done violence to His <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[b]</a></span>tabernacle,</span><br /><span class="text Lam-2-6"><i>As if it were</i> a garden;</span><br /><span class="text Lam-2-6">He has destroyed His place of assembly;</span><br /><span class="text Lam-2-6">The <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> has caused</span><br /><span class="text Lam-2-6">The appointed feasts and Sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion.</span><br /><span class="text Lam-2-6">In His burning indignation He has spurned the king and the priest.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/2-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>The Lord has spurned His altar,</span><br /><span class="text Lam-2-7">He has abandoned His sanctuary;</span><br /><span class="text Lam-2-7">He has <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[c]</a></span>given up the walls of her palaces</span><br /><span class="text Lam-2-7">Into the hand of the enemy.</span><br /><span class="text Lam-2-7">They have made a noise in the house of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span></span><br /><span class="text Lam-2-7">As on the day of a set feast.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/2-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>The <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> has <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[d]</a></span>purposed to destroy</span><br /><span class="text Lam-2-8">The wall of the daughter of Zion.</span><br /><span class="text Lam-2-8">He has stretched out a line;</span><br /><span class="text Lam-2-8">He has not withdrawn His hand from destroying;</span><br /><span class="text Lam-2-8">Therefore He has caused the rampart and wall to lament;</span><br /><span class="text Lam-2-8">They languished together.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/2-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Her gates have sunk into the ground;</span><br /><span class="text Lam-2-9">He has destroyed and broken her bars.</span><br /><span class="text Lam-2-9">Her king and her princes <i>are</i> among the <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[e]</a></span>nations;</span><br /><span class="text Lam-2-9">The Law <i>is</i> no <i>more,</i></span><br /><span class="text Lam-2-9">And her prophets find no <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[f]</a></span>vision from the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/2-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>The elders of the daughter of Zion</span><br /><span class="text Lam-2-10">Sit on the ground <i>and</i> keep silence;</span><br /><span class="text Lam-2-10"><span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[g]</a></span>They throw dust on their heads</span><br /><span class="text Lam-2-10">And gird themselves with sackcloth.</span><br /><span class="text Lam-2-10">The virgins of Jerusalem</span><br /><span class="text Lam-2-10">Bow their heads to the ground.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/2-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>My eyes fail with tears,</span><br /><span class="text Lam-2-11">My <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[h]</a></span>heart is troubled;</span><br /><span class="text Lam-2-11">My <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[i]</a></span>bile is poured on the ground</span><br /><span class="text Lam-2-11">Because of the destruction of the daughter of my people,</span><br /><span class="text Lam-2-11">Because the children and the infants</span><br /><span class="text Lam-2-11">Faint in the streets of the city.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/2-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>They say to their mothers,</span><br /><span class="text Lam-2-12">“Where <i>is</i> grain and wine?”</span><br /><span class="text Lam-2-12">As they swoon like the wounded</span><br /><span class="text Lam-2-12">In the streets of the city,</span><br /><span class="text Lam-2-12">As their life is poured out</span><br /><span class="text Lam-2-12">In their mothers’ bosom.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/2-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>How shall I console<span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[j]</a></span> you?</span><br /><span class="text Lam-2-13">To what shall I liken you,</span><br /><span class="text Lam-2-13">O daughter of Jerusalem?</span><br /><span class="text Lam-2-13">What shall I compare with you, that I may comfort you,</span><br /><span class="text Lam-2-13">O virgin daughter of Zion?</span><br /><span class="text Lam-2-13">For your ruin <i>is</i> spread wide as the sea;</span><br /><span class="text Lam-2-13">Who can heal you?</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/2-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Your prophets have seen for you</span><br /><span class="text Lam-2-14">False and deceptive visions;</span><br /><span class="text Lam-2-14">They have not uncovered your iniquity,</span><br /><span class="text Lam-2-14">To bring back your captives,</span><br /><span class="text Lam-2-14">But have envisioned for you false prophecies and delusions.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/2-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>All who <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[k]</a></span>pass by clap <i>their</i> hands at you;</span><br /><span class="text Lam-2-15">They hiss and shake their heads</span><br /><span class="text Lam-2-15">At the daughter of Jerusalem:</span><br /><span class="text Lam-2-15">“<i>Is</i> this the city that is called</span><br /><span class="text Lam-2-15">‘The perfection of beauty,</span><br /><span class="text Lam-2-15">The joy of the whole earth’?”</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/2-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>All your enemies have opened their mouth against you;</span><br /><span class="text Lam-2-16">They hiss and gnash <i>their</i> teeth.</span><br /><span class="text Lam-2-16">They say, “We have swallowed <i>her</i> up!</span><br /><span class="text Lam-2-16">Surely this <i>is</i> the day we have waited for;</span><br /><span class="text Lam-2-16">We have found <i>it,</i> we have seen <i>it!</i>”</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/2-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>The <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> has done what He purposed;</span><br /><span class="text Lam-2-17">He has fulfilled His word</span><br /><span class="text Lam-2-17">Which He commanded in days of old.</span><br /><span class="text Lam-2-17">He has thrown down and has not pitied,</span><br /><span class="text Lam-2-17">And He has caused an enemy to rejoice over you;</span><br /><span class="text Lam-2-17">He has exalted the <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[l]</a></span>horn of your adversaries.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/2-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Their heart cried out to the Lord,</span><br /><span class="text Lam-2-18">“O wall of the daughter of Zion,</span><br /><span class="text Lam-2-18">Let tears run down like a river day and night;</span><br /><span class="text Lam-2-18">Give yourself no relief;</span><br /><span class="text Lam-2-18">Give <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[m]</a></span>your eyes no rest.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/2-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>“Arise, cry out in the night,</span><br /><span class="text Lam-2-19">At the beginning of the watches;</span><br /><span class="text Lam-2-19">Pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord.</span><br /><span class="text Lam-2-19">Lift your hands toward Him</span><br /><span class="text Lam-2-19">For the life of your young children,</span><br /><span class="text Lam-2-19">Who faint from hunger at the head of every street.”</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/2-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>“See, O <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>, and consider!</span><br /><span class="text Lam-2-20">To whom have You done this?</span><br /><span class="text Lam-2-20">Should the women eat their offspring,</span><br /><span class="text Lam-2-20">The children <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[n]</a></span>they have cuddled?</span><br /><span class="text Lam-2-20">Should the priest and prophet be slain</span><br /><span class="text Lam-2-20">In the sanctuary of the Lord?</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/2-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>“Young and old lie</span><br /><span class="text Lam-2-21">On the ground in the streets;</span><br /><span class="text Lam-2-21">My virgins and my young men</span><br /><span class="text Lam-2-21">Have fallen by the sword;</span><br /><span class="text Lam-2-21">You have slain <i>them</i> in the day of Your anger,</span><br /><span class="text Lam-2-21">You have slaughtered <i>and</i> not pitied.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/2-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>“You have invited as to a feast day</span><br /><span class="text Lam-2-22">The terrors that surround me.</span><br /><span class="text Lam-2-22">In the day of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>’s anger</span><br /><span class="text Lam-2-22">There was no refugee or survivor.</span><br /><span class="text Lam-2-22">Those whom I have borne and brought up</span><br /><span class="text Lam-2-22">My enemies have destroyed.”</span></p></div> <A name="footnotes"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes:</h4><ol><li id="fen-NKJV-20336a"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Lamentations 2:3">Lamentations 2:3</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Strength</span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-20339b"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Lamentations 2:6">Lamentations 2:6</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Lit. <i>booth</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-20340c"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Lamentations 2:7">Lamentations 2:7</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>delivered</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-20341d"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Lamentations 2:8">Lamentations 2:8</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>determined</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-20342e"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Lamentations 2:9">Lamentations 2:9</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>Gentiles</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-20342f"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Lamentations 2:9">Lamentations 2:9</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Prophetic revelation</span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-20343g"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Lamentations 2:10">Lamentations 2:10</span> <span class='footnote-text'>A sign of mourning</span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-20344h"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Lamentations 2:11">Lamentations 2:11</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Lit. <i>inward parts</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-20344i"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Lamentations 2:11">Lamentations 2:11</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Lit. <i>liver</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-20346j"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Lamentations 2:13">Lamentations 2:13</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>bear witness to</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-20348k"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Lamentations 2:15">Lamentations 2:15</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Lit. <i>pass by this way</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-20350l"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Lamentations 2:17">Lamentations 2:17</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Strength</span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-20351m"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Lamentations 2:18">Lamentations 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