Lamentations 2:3 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Bible Comments

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. He hath cut off ... all the horn of Israel. Horns are now worn in the East as an ornament on the forehead, and an emblem of power and majesty. The Druse women wear a silver horn as the distinguishing badge of wifehood. There is no proof that they were so originally. But as the horn is the chief instrument of attack in horned animals, it is used in Scripture as the emblem of power, dominion, glory, and fierceness (1 Samuel 2:10; Psalms 132:17; Jeremiah 48:25, note).

He hath drawn back ... right hand from before the enemy - (Psalms 74:11, "Why withdrawest thou thy hand, even thy right hand?") God has withdrawn the help which He before gave them. Not, as Henderson, 'He has turned back his (Israel's) right hand' (Psalms 89:43).

[Daleth (d)]

Lamentations 2:3

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.