Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version The Lord is like an enemy; he has swallowed up Israel. He has swallowed up all her palaces and destroyed her strongholds. He has multiplied mourning and lamentation for Daughter Judah. New Living Translation Yes, the Lord has vanquished Israel like an enemy. He has destroyed her palaces and demolished her fortresses. He has brought unending sorrow and tears upon beautiful Jerusalem. English Standard Version The Lord has become like an enemy; he has swallowed up Israel; he has swallowed up all its palaces; he has laid in ruins its strongholds, and he has multiplied in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation. Berean Standard Bible The Lord is like an enemy; He has swallowed up Israel. He has swallowed up all her palaces and destroyed her strongholds. He has multiplied mourning and lamentation for the Daughter of Judah. King James 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. New King James Version The Lord was like an enemy. He has swallowed up Israel, He has swallowed up all her palaces; He has destroyed her strongholds, And has increased mourning and lamentation In the daughter of Judah. New American Standard Bible The Lord has become like an enemy. He has engulfed Israel; He has engulfed all its palaces, He has destroyed its strongholds And caused great mourning and grieving in the daughter of Judah. NASB 1995 The Lord has become like an enemy. He has swallowed up Israel; He has swallowed up all its palaces, He has destroyed its strongholds And multiplied in the daughter of Judah Mourning and moaning. NASB 1977 The Lord has become like an enemy. He has swallowed up Israel; He has swallowed up all its palaces; He has destroyed its strongholds And multiplied in the daughter of Judah Mourning and moaning. Legacy Standard Bible The Lord has become like an enemy. He has swallowed up Israel; He has swallowed up all its palaces; He has brought its strongholds to ruin And multiplied in the daughter of Judah Mourning and moaning. Amplified Bible The Lord has become like an enemy; He has swallowed up Israel. He has swallowed up all its palaces; He has destroyed its strongholds And multiplied in the Daughter of Judah Mourning and lamentation (expressions of grief). Christian Standard Bible The Lord is like an enemy; he has swallowed up Israel. He swallowed up all its palaces and destroyed its fortified cities. He has multiplied mourning and lamentation within Daughter Judah. Holman Christian Standard Bible The Lord is like an enemy; He has swallowed up Israel. He swallowed up all its palaces and destroyed its fortified cities. He has multiplied mourning and lamentation within Daughter Judah. American Standard Version The Lord is become as an enemy, he hath swallowed up Israel; He hath swallowed up all her palaces, he hath destroyed his strongholds; And he hath multiplied in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation. Contemporary English Version The Lord was like an enemy! He left Israel in ruins with its palaces and fortresses destroyed, and with everyone in Judah moaning and weeping. English Revised Version The Lord is become as an enemy, he hath swallowed up Israel; he hath swallowed up all her palaces, he hath destroyed his strong holds: and he hath multiplied in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation. GOD'S WORD® Translation The Lord became an enemy. He swallowed up Israel. He swallowed up all of its palaces. He destroyed its strongholds. He made the people of Judah mourn and moan. Good News Translation Like an enemy, the Lord has destroyed Israel; He has left her forts and palaces in ruins. He has brought on the people of Judah unending sorrow. International Standard Version The Lord has become like an enemy— he has devoured Israel. He has devoured all of her palaces, destroying her fortresses. He filled cherished Judah with mourning and lament. Majority Standard Bible The Lord is like an enemy; He has swallowed up Israel. He has swallowed up all her palaces and destroyed her strongholds. He has multiplied mourning and lamentation for the Daughter of Judah. NET Bible The Lord, like an enemy, destroyed Israel. He destroyed all her palaces; he ruined her fortified cities. He made everyone in Daughter Judah mourn and lament. New Heart English Bible The LORD has become as an enemy; he has swallowed up Israel; he has swallowed up all her palaces and has destroyed its strongholds. He has multiplied in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation. Webster's Bible Translation 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. World English Bible The Lord has become as an enemy. He has swallowed up Israel. He has swallowed up all her palaces. He has destroyed his strongholds. He has multiplied mourning and lamentation in the daughter of Judah. Literal Translations Literal Standard VersionThe Lord has been as an enemy, "" He has swallowed up Israel, "" He has swallowed up all her palaces, "" He has destroyed His fortresses, "" And He multiplies in the daughter of Judah "" Mourning and moaning. Young's Literal Translation The Lord hath been as an enemy, He hath swallowed up Israel, He hath swallowed up all her palaces, He hath destroyed His fortresses, And He multiplieth in the daughter of Judah Mourning and moaning. Smith's Literal Translation Jehovah was as an enemy: he swallowed up Israel, he swallowed up all her fortresses: he destroyed his fortifications, and he will multiply in the daughter of Judah sorrow and sighing. Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims BibleHe. The Lord is become as an enemy: he hath cast down Israel headlong, he hath overthrown all the walls thereof: he hath destroyed his strong holds, and hath multiplied in the daughter of Juda the afflicted, both men and women. Catholic Public Domain Version HE. The Lord has become like an enemy. He has thrown down Israel. He has thrown down all of his defenses. He has torn apart his fortifications. And he has filled the daughter of Judah with humbled men and humbled women. New American Bible The Lord has become the enemy, he has devoured Israel: Devoured all its strongholds, destroyed its defenses, Multiplied moaning and groaning throughout daughter Judah. New Revised Standard Version The Lord has become like an enemy; he has destroyed Israel. He has destroyed all its palaces, laid in ruins its strongholds, and multiplied in daughter Judah mourning and lamentation. Translations from Aramaic Lamsa BibleThe LORD has become as an enemy; he has drowned Israel, he has destroyed all her palaces; he has made havoc in all her provinces, and has increased in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation. Peshitta Holy Bible Translated He LORD JEHOVAH was as an enemy and he drowned Israel, and he sank all his palaces and destroyed his surroundings and he increased in the daughter of Yehuda a byword and wailings OT Translations JPS Tanakh 1917The Lord is become as an enemy, He hath swallowed up Israel; He hath swallowed up all her palaces, He hath destroyed his strongholds; And He hath multiplied in the daughter of Judah Mourning and moaning. Brenton Septuagint Translation HE. The Lord is become as an enemy: he has overwhelmed Israel as in the sea, he has overwhelmed her palaces: he has destroyed her strong-holds, and has multiplied the afflicted and humbled ones to the daughter of Juda. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context God's Anger over Jerusalem…4He has bent His bow like an enemy; His right hand is positioned. Like a foe He has killed all who were pleasing to the eye; He has poured out His wrath like fire on the tent of the Daughter of Zion. 5The Lord is like an enemy; He has swallowed up Israel. He has swallowed up all her palaces and destroyed her strongholds. He has multiplied mourning and lamentation for the Daughter of Judah. 6He has laid waste His tabernacle like a garden booth; He has destroyed His place of meeting. The LORD has made Zion forget her appointed feasts and Sabbaths. In His fierce anger He has despised both king and priest.… Cross References Jeremiah 30:14 All your lovers have forgotten you; they no longer seek you, for I have struck you as an enemy would, with the discipline of someone cruel, because of your great iniquity and your numerous sins. Isaiah 63:10 But they rebelled and grieved His Holy Spirit. So He turned and became their enemy, and He Himself fought against them. Jeremiah 21:5 And I Myself will fight against you with an outstretched hand and a mighty arm, with anger, fury, and great wrath. Deuteronomy 28:63 Just as it pleased the LORD to make you prosper and multiply, so also it will please Him to annihilate you and destroy you. And you will be uprooted from the land you are entering to possess. Isaiah 42:25 So He poured out on them His furious anger and the fierceness of battle. It enveloped them in flames, but they did not understand; it consumed them, but they did not take it to heart. Ezekiel 5:8-9 Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Behold, I Myself am against you, Jerusalem, and I will execute judgments among you in the sight of the nations. / Because of all your abominations, I will do to you what I have never done before and will never do again. Jeremiah 4:8 So put on sackcloth, mourn and wail, for the fierce anger of the LORD has not turned away from us.” Hosea 5:14 For I am like a lion to Ephraim and like a young lion to the house of Judah. I, even I, will tear them to pieces and then go away. I will carry them off where no one can rescue them. Amos 3:2 “Only you have I known from all the families of the earth; therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.” 2 Kings 17:18-20 So the LORD was very angry with Israel, and He removed them from His presence. Only the tribe of Judah remained, / and even Judah did not keep the commandments of the LORD their God, but lived according to the customs Israel had introduced. / So the LORD rejected all the descendants of Israel. He afflicted them and delivered them into the hands of plunderers, until He had banished them from His presence. Psalm 74:1 A Maskil of Asaph. Why have You rejected us forever, O God? Why does Your anger smolder against the sheep of Your pasture? Jeremiah 12:7 I have forsaken My house; I have abandoned My inheritance. I have given the beloved of My soul into the hands of her enemies. Ezekiel 7:8-9 Very soon I will pour out My wrath upon you and vent My anger against you; I will judge you according to your ways and repay you for all your abominations. / I will not look on you with pity, nor will I spare you, but I will punish you for your ways and for the abominations among you. Then you will know that it is I, the LORD, who strikes the blow. Isaiah 1:24 Therefore the Lord GOD of Hosts, the Mighty One of Israel, declares: “Ah, I will be relieved of My foes and avenge Myself on My enemies. Jeremiah 6:6 For this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Cut down the trees and raise a siege ramp against Jerusalem. This city must be punished; there is nothing but oppression in her midst. Treasury of Scripture The LORD was as an enemy: he has swallowed up Israel, he has swallowed up all her palaces: he has destroyed his strong holds, and has increased in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation. was Lamentations 2:4 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. Jeremiah 15:1 Then said the LORD unto me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind could not be toward this people: cast them out of my sight, and let them go forth. Jeremiah 30:14 All thy lovers have forgotten thee; they seek thee not; for I have wounded thee with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one, for the multitude of thine iniquity; because thy sins were increased. he hath swallowed up Israel Lamentations 2:2 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. 2 Kings 25:9 And he burnt the house of the LORD, and the king's house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, and every great man's house burnt he with fire. 2 Chronicles 36:16,17 But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against his people, till there was no remedy… mourning Ezekiel 2:10 And he spread it before me; and it was written within and without: and there was written therein lamentations, and mourning, and woe. Jump to Previous Daughter Destroyed Destruction Enemy Fighting Great Grief Holds Houses Increased Increasing Israel Judah Lamentation Making Moaning Mourning Multiplied Palaces Places Ruins Sending Strong Strongholds Swallowed WasteJump to Next Daughter Destroyed Destruction Enemy Fighting Great Grief Holds Houses Increased Increasing Israel Judah Lamentation Making Moaning Mourning Multiplied Palaces Places Ruins Sending Strong Strongholds Swallowed WasteLamentations 2 1. Jeremiah laments the misery of Jerusalem20. He complains thereof to God The Lord is like an enemy This phrase is striking and deeply unsettling, as it portrays God in a role that seems contrary to His nature as a protector and savior. The Hebrew word for "enemy" here is "אֹיֵב" (oyev), which typically denotes an adversary or foe. This depiction underscores the severity of God's judgment against Israel due to their persistent disobedience and idolatry. Historically, this reflects the period of the Babylonian siege and destruction of Jerusalem, where the people felt abandoned by God, as if He had turned against them. This serves as a sobering reminder of the consequences of turning away from God's covenant. He has swallowed up Israel He has swallowed up all her palaces and destroyed her strongholds He has multiplied mourning and lamentation in the Daughter of Judah Mourning and lamentation.--The two Hebrew nouns are formed from the same root, and have an assonance like "the sorrow and sighing" of Isaiah 35:10. Verse 5. - Was as an enemy: he hath swallowed, etc. The threefold division of the verse is, unfortunately, concealed in the Authorized Version, owing to the arbitrary stopping. The grouping suggested by the Massoretic text is -"The Lord is become an enemy, he hath swallowed up Israel; Hebrew The Lordאֲדֹנָ֤י ׀ (’ă·ḏō·nāy) Noun - proper - masculine singular Strong's 136: The Lord is הָיָ֨ה (hā·yāh) Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular Strong's 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be like an enemy; כְּאוֹיֵב֙ (kə·’ō·w·yêḇ) Preposition-k | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular Strong's 341: Hating, an adversary He has swallowed up בִּלַּ֣ע (bil·la‘) Verb - Piel - Perfect - third person masculine singular Strong's 1104: To swallow down, swallow up, engulf Israel. יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל (yiś·rā·’êl) Noun - proper - masculine singular Strong's 3478: Israel -- 'God strives', another name of Jacob and his desc He swallowed up בִּלַּע֙ (bil·la‘) Verb - Piel - Perfect - third person masculine singular Strong's 1104: To swallow down, swallow up, engulf all כָּל־ (kāl-) Noun - masculine singular construct Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every her palaces אַרְמְנוֹתֶ֔יהָ (’ar·mə·nō·w·ṯe·hā) Noun - masculine plural construct | third person feminine singular Strong's 759: A citadel and destroyed שִׁחֵ֖ת (ši·ḥêṯ) Verb - Piel - Perfect - third person masculine singular Strong's 7843: Perhaps to go to ruin her strongholds. מִבְצָרָ֑יו (miḇ·ṣā·rāw) Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine singular Strong's 4013: A fortification, castle, fortified city, a defender He has multiplied וַיֶּ֙רֶב֙ (way·ye·reḇ) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular Strong's 7235: To be or become much, many or great mourning תַּאֲנִיָּ֖ה (ta·’ă·nî·yāh) Noun - feminine singular Strong's 8386: Lamentation and lamentation וַאֲנִיָּֽה׃ (wa·’ă·nî·yāh) Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular Strong's 592: Groaning in the Daughter בְּבַת־ (bə·ḇaṯ-) Preposition-b | Noun - feminine singular construct Strong's 1323: A daughter of Judah. יְהוּדָ֔ה (yə·hū·ḏāh) Noun - proper - masculine singular Strong's 3063: Judah -- 'praised', a son of Jacob, also the southern kingdom, also four Israelites Links Lamentations 2:5 NIVLamentations 2:5 NLT Lamentations 2:5 ESV Lamentations 2:5 NASB Lamentations 2:5 KJV Lamentations 2:5 BibleApps.com Lamentations 2:5 Biblia Paralela Lamentations 2:5 Chinese Bible Lamentations 2:5 French Bible Lamentations 2:5 Catholic Bible OT Prophets: Lamentations 2:5 The Lord is become as an enemy (Lam. 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