Lamentations 2:22 meaning and explanation
You summoned my attackers on every side, as for the day of an appointed feast. In the day of the LORD’s anger no one escaped or survived; my enemy has destroyed those I nurtured and reared.
Lamentations 2:22, Berean Standard Bible
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The speaker is the grieving poet of Jerusalem, voicing the city’s lament after Babylon destroyed it in 586 BC. He addresses God directly, and the image is bitter: God summoned the attackers as though inviting guests to a festival, the same word used for Israel’s appointed feasts in verses 6 and 7.
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