“He has cut off all the horn of Israel in fierce anger.He has drawn back his right hand from before the enemy.He has burned up Jacob like a flaming fire,which devours all around.”
Lamentations 2:3 (WEB)
Context Reading
1How has the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger!He has cast the beauty of Israel down from heaven to the earth,and hasn’t remembered his footstool in the day of his anger. 2The Lord has swallowed up all the dwellings of Jacobwithout pity.He has thrown down in his wrath the strongholds of the daughter of Judah.He has brought them down to the ground.He has profaned the kingdom and its princes. 3He has cut off all the horn of Israel in fierce anger.He has drawn back his right hand from before the enemy.He has burned up Jacob like a flaming fire,which devours all around. 4He has bent his bow like an enemy.He has stood with his right hand as an adversary.He has killed all that were pleasant to the eye.In the tent of the daughter of Zion, he has poured out his wrath like fire. 5The 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.