Lamentations 2:5 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ 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 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Literally, אדני 'ădonāy has become “as an enemy.”
Lamentations 2:5 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Lamentations 2. The Second Lament. This differs from the first in its contents, and in its literary form. The metrical matters are the same, i.e. there are twenty-two verses, wherein the first wo...
Lamentations 2:5 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

her. Ginsburg thinks it should be "His". mourning and lamentation. Note the Figure of speech Paronomasia (App-6). Hebrew. taaniyyah vaaniyyah.
Lamentations 2:5 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

These words might seem superfluous, since the Prophet has often repeated, that God was become an enemy to his own people; but we shall hereafter see, that though they were extremely afflicted,...
Lamentations 2:5 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

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 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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 lamentati...
Lamentations 2:5 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Zion's Sorrows due to Jehovah's Anger In this second dirge, the cause of Zion's woe is dwelt upon. Jehovah has become angry with His people, therefore He has cast them off. Zion's miseries are the...
Lamentations 2:5 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Her palaces:... his strong holds... — The change of gender is remarkable, probably rising from the fact that the writer thought of the “palaces” in connection with the “daughters of Zion,” and of t...
Lamentations 2:5 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

GOD AS AN ENEMY Lamentations 2:1-9 THE elegist, as we have seen, attributes the troubles of the Jews to the will and. action of God. In the second poem he even ventures further, and with daring...
Lamentations 2:5 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

In the second poem, the prophet dealt with the sources of the sorrow he had described. Again affirming that it was the result of the direct action of Jehovah, he proceeded to describe it in its mater...
Lamentations 2:5 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

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! The...
Lamentations 2:5 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

The Lord was as an enemy ,.... Who formerly was on their side, their God and guardian, their protector and deliverer, but now against them; and a terrible thing it is to have God for an enemy, or ev...
Lamentations 2:5 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

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 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Cause, Extent, and Greatness of Zion's Calamities. B. C. 588. 1 How hath the Lord covere...
Lamentations 2:5 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

See Lamentations 2:2 . Several pathetical expressions signifying the same things, properly imitating the dialect of mourners, whose passion suffers them not to speak according to art, but frequent...
Lamentations 2:5 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

The Lord's Anger Is Revealed In The Destruction Of Jerusalem ( Lamentations 2:1-9 ). In these verses we have a description of how in His ‘anger' (antipathy towards sin) the Lord has brought destru...
Lamentations 2:5 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

EXEGETICAL NOTES. — (א) Lamentations 2:1 . The poet sees nature as if it were in commotion. A storm-cloud piles up over Jerusalem, shrouding with its gloom even the most commanding summit. But it...
Lamentations 2:5 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Lamentations 2:1 . How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud. The day break, but no sun shines, no opening of future hope. Lamentations 2:2 . The Lord hath swallowed up all th...
Lamentations 2:5 - The Biblical Illustrator

How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in ms anger. Chastisements 1. It is our duty to strive with ourselves to be affected with the miseries of God’s people. 2. The cha...
Lamentations 2:5 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

ZION 'S JUDGMENT IS OF GOD . LAMENTATIONS AND SUPPLICATIONS . EXPOSITION Lamentations 2:1 Hath the Lord covered; rather, doth … cover . The daughter of Zion; i.e. Jer...
Lamentations 2:5 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

A Description of Jehovah's Judgment
Lamentations 2:5 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

Lamentations 2:5 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Lamentations 2:5 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Lamentations 2:5 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Lamentations 2:5 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Lamentations 2:5 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Lamentations 2:5 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Lamentations 2:5 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Lamentations 2:5 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Lamentations 2:5 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Lamentations 2:5 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Lamentations 2:5 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Lamentations 2:5 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Lamentations 2:5 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Lamentations 2:5 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Lamentations 2:5 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Lamentations 2:5 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Lamentations 2:5 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Lamentations 2:5 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Lamentations 2:5 - The Biblical Illustrator

Lamentations 2:5 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Lamentations 2:5 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Lamentations 2:5 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge