Lamentations 2:17 meaning and explanation
The LORD has done what He planned; He has accomplished His decree, which He ordained in days of old; He has overthrown you without pity. He has let the enemy gloat over you and exalted the horn of your foes.
Lamentations 2:17, Berean Standard Bible
Explanation preview
The speaker is the grieving poet of Jerusalem, looking back on the city's fall to Babylon in 586 BC. After describing enemies who gloat over Zion, he turns the picture around: it was not Babylon's strength alone that did this.
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