Lamentations 2:4 meaning and explanation
He 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.
Lamentations 2:4, Berean Standard Bible
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The speaker is the poet of Lamentations, voicing Jerusalem's grief after the Babylonians destroyed the city and temple in 586 BC. Here he describes the LORD not as Israel's defender but as a warrior turned against her, bending His bow and taking His stance like a besieging enemy.
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