Lamentations 2:4 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Bible Comments

He stood with his right hand ... - i. e. that right hand so often stretched out to help now grasped a weapon ready for Judah’s destruction.

Were pleasant - Or, was “pleasant.” Put full stop after “eye.” Begin the third distich thus:

In the tabernacle - (or, tent) of the daughter of Zion.

Lamentations 2:4

4 He hath bent his bow like an enemy: he stood with his right hand as an adversary, and slew all that were pleasantb to the eye in the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion: he poured out his fury like fire.