Lamentations 2:2
Without pity the Lord has swallowed up all the dwellings of Jacob. In His wrath He has demolished the fortified cities of the Daughter of Judah. He brought to the ground and defiled her kingdom and its princes.
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

swallowed

Lamentations 1:17, 21
Zion stretches out her hands, but there is no one to comfort her. The LORD has decreed against Jacob that his neighbors become his foes. Jerusalem has become an unclean thing among them. . . .

Lamentations 3:43
You have covered Yourself in anger and pursued us; You have killed without pity.

Job 2:3
Then the LORD said to Satan, "Have you considered My servant Job? For there is no one on earth like him--blameless and upright, fearing God and shunning evil. He still retains his integrity, even though you incited Me against him to ruin him without cause."

Psalm 21:9
You will place them in a fiery furnace at the time of your appearing. In His wrath the LORD will engulf them, and the fire will consume them.

Isaiah 27:11
When its limbs are dry, they will be broken off. Women will come and use them for kindling, for they are a people without understanding. Therefore their Maker will have no compassion on them, and their Creator will show them no grace.

Jeremiah 13:14
I will smash them against each other, fathers and sons alike, declares the LORD. I will allow no mercy or pity or compassion to keep Me from destroying them.'"

Jeremiah 21:7
After that, declares the LORD, I will hand over King Zedekiah of Judah, his officers, and the people in this city who survive the plague and sword and famine, to King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon and to their enemies who seek their lives. He will put them to the sword; he will not spare them or show pity or compassion.'

Ezekiel 5:11
Therefore as surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, because you have defiled My sanctuary with all your detestable idols and abominations, I Myself will withdraw My favor; I will not look upon you with pity, nor will I spare you.

Ezekiel 7:4, 9
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 I am the LORD.' . . .

Ezekiel 8:18
Therefore I will respond with wrath. I will not look on them with pity or spare them. Although they shout loudly in My ears, I will not listen to them."

Ezekiel 9:10
But as for Me, I will not show pity or spare them. I will bring their deeds down upon their own heads."

Zechariah 11:5, 6
whose buyers slaughter them without remorse. Those who sell them say, 'Praise the LORD, for I am rich!' Even their own shepherds have no compassion for them. . . .

Matthew 18:33
Should you not have had mercy on your fellow servant, just as I had on you?'

he hath thrown

Lamentations 2:5, 17
The Lord is like an enemy; He has swallowed up Israel. He swallowed up all her palaces and destroyed her strongholds. He has multiplied mourning and lamentation in the Daughter of Judah. . . .

Jeremiah 5:10
Go up through her vineyards and ravage them, but do not finish them off. Strip off her branches, for they do not belong to the LORD.

Micah 5:11, 12
I will remove the cities of your land and tear down all your strongholds. . . .

Malachi 1:4
Though Edom may say, "We have been devastated, but we will rebuild the ruins, " this is what the LORD of Hosts says: "They may build, but I will demolish. They will be called the Land of Wickedness, and a people toward whom the LORD is indignant forever.

2 Corinthians 10:4
The weapons of our warfare are not the weapons of the world. Instead, they have divine power to demolish strongholds.

brought them down to Heb.

Isaiah 25:12
The high-walled fortress will be brought down, cast to the ground, into the dust.

Isaiah 26:5
For He has humbled those who dwell on high--He lays the lofty city low. He brings it down to the ground; He casts it into the dust.

polluted

Psalm 89:39, 40
You have renounced the covenant with Your servant and sullied his crown in the dust. . . .

Isaiah 23:9
The LORD of Hosts planned it, to defile all its glorious beauty, to disgrace all the renowned of the earth.

Isaiah 43:28
So I will disgrace the princes of your sanctuary, and consign Jacob to destruction and Israel to reproach.

Isaiah 47:6
I was angry with My people; I profaned My heritage, and I placed them under your control. You showed them no mercy; even upon the elderly you laid a most heavy yoke.

Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
The Lord has swallowed up; He has not spared All the habitations of Jacob. In His wrath He has thrown down The strongholds of the daughter of Judah; He has brought them down to the ground; He has profaned the kingdom and its princes.

King James Bible
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.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Without compassion the Lord has swallowed up all the dwellings of Jacob. In His wrath He has demolished the fortified cities of Daughter Judah. He brought them to the ground and defiled the kingdom and its leaders.

International Standard Version
The Lord swallowed up without pity all of Jacob's habitations. In his wrath he tore down the strongholds of fair Judah. He cast to the ground in dishonor both her kingdom and its rulers.

NET Bible
The Lord destroyed mercilessly all the homes of Jacob's descendants. In his anger he tore down the fortified cities of Daughter Judah. He knocked to the ground and humiliated the kingdom and its rulers.
Links
Lamentations 2:2 NIV
Lamentations 2:2 NLT
Lamentations 2:2 ESV
Lamentations 2:2 NASB
Lamentations 2:2 KJV

Lamentations 2:2 Bible Apps
Lamentations 2:2 Parallel
Lamentations 2:2 Biblia Paralela
Lamentations 2:2 Chinese Bible
Lamentations 2:2 French Bible
Lamentations 2:2 German Bible

Lamentations 2:2 Commentaries

Bible Hub
Lamentations 2:1
Top of Page
Top of Page