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Lamentations 2

Lam. 2:2 KJV (With Strong’s)

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The Lord
'Adonay (Hebrew #136)
the Lord (used as a proper name of God only)
KJV usage: (my) Lord.
Pronounce: ad-o-noy'
Origin: am emphatic form of 113
hath swallowed up
bala` (Hebrew #1104)
to make away with (specifically by swallowing); generally, to destroy
KJV usage: cover, destroy, devour, eat up, be at end, spend up, swallow down (up).
Pronounce: baw-lah'
Origin: a primitive root
all the habitations
na'ah (Hebrew #4999)
a home; figuratively, a pasture
KJV usage: habitation, house, pasture, pleasant place.
Pronounce: naw-aw'
Origin: from 4998
of Jacob
Ya`aqob (Hebrew #3290)
heel-catcher (i.e. supplanter); Jaakob, the Israelitish patriarch
KJV usage: Jacob.
Pronounce: yah-ak-obe'
Origin: from 6117
, and hath notm pitied
chamal (Hebrew #2550)
to commiserate; by implication, to spare
KJV usage: have compassion, (have) pity, spare.
Pronounce: khaw-mal'
Origin: a primitive root
: he hath thrown down
harac (Hebrew #2040)
to pull down or in pieces, break, destroy
KJV usage: beat down, break (down, through), destroy, overthrow, pluck down, pull down, ruin, throw down, X utterly.
Pronounce: haw-ras'
Origin: a primitive root
in his wrath
`ebrah (Hebrew #5678)
an outburst of passion
KJV usage: anger, rage, wrath.
Pronounce: eb-raw'
Origin: feminine of 5676
the strong holds
mibtsar (Hebrew #4013)
from 1219; a fortification, castle, or fortified city; figuratively, a defender
KJV usage: (de-, most) fenced, fortress, (most) strong (hold).
Pronounce: mib-tsawr'
Origin: also (in plural) feminine (Dan. 11:l5) mibtsarah {mib-tsaw-raw'}
of the daughter
bath (Hebrew #1323)
a daughter (used in the same wide sense as other terms of relationship, literally and figuratively)
KJV usage: apple (of the eye), branch, company, daughter, X first, X old, + owl, town, village.
Pronounce: bath
Origin: from 1129 (as feminine of 1121)
of Judah
Yhuwdah (Hebrew #3063)
celebrated; Jehudah (or Judah), the name of five Israelites; also of the tribe descended from the first, and of its territory
KJV usage: Judah.
Pronounce: yeh-hoo-daw'
Origin: from 3034
; he hath γbrought them down
naga` (Hebrew #5060)
properly, to touch, i.e. lay the hand upon (for any purpose; euphem., to lie with a woman); by implication, to reach (figuratively, to arrive, acquire); violently, to strike (punish, defeat, destroy, etc.)
KJV usage: beat, (X be able to) bring (down), cast, come (nigh), draw near (nigh), get up, happen, join, near, plague, reach (up), smite, strike, touch.
Pronounce: naw-gah'
Origin: a primitive root
to the ground
'erets (Hebrew #776)
the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
KJV usage: X common, country, earth, field, ground, land, X natins, way, + wilderness, world.
Pronounce: eh'-rets
Origin: from an unused root probably meaning to be firm
b: he hath polluted
chalal (Hebrew #2490)
properly, to bore, i.e. (by implication) to wound, to dissolve; figuratively, to profane (a person, place or thing), to break (one's word), to begin (as if by an "opening wedge"); denom. (from 2485) to play (the flute)
KJV usage: begin (X men began), defile, X break, defile, X eat (as common things), X first, X gather the grape thereof, X take inheritance, pipe, player on instruments, pollute, (cast as) profane (self), prostitute, slay (slain), sorrow, stain, wound.
Pronounce: khaw-lal'
Origin: a primitive root (compare 2470)
the kingdom
mamlakah (Hebrew #4467)
dominion, i.e. (abstractly) the estate (rule) or (concretely) the country (realm)
KJV usage: kingdom, king's, reign, royal.
Pronounce: mam-law-kaw'
Origin: from 4427
and the princes
sar (Hebrew #8269)
a head person (of any rank or class)
KJV usage: captain (that had rule), chief (captain), general, governor, keeper, lord, ((-task- ))master, prince(-ipal), ruler, steward.
Pronounce: sar
Origin: from 8323
thereof.
m
Jer. 13:14• 14And I will dash them one against another, both the fathers and the sons together, saith Jehovah; I will not pity, nor spare, nor have mercy so as not to destroy them. (Jer. 13:14)
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made to touch.
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Psa. 89:39• 39Thou hast made void the covenant of thy servant; thou hast profaned his crown to the ground: (Psa. 89:39)

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Jacob,
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Wrath

Cross References

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swallowed.
Lam. 2:17,21• 17Jehovah hath done what he had devised; he hath fulfilled his word which he had commanded from the days of old: he hath thrown down, and hath not spared, and he hath caused the enemy to rejoice over thee; he hath set up the horn of thine adversaries.
 21The child and the old man lie on the ground in the streets; my virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword: thou hast slain them in the day of thine anger; thou hast killed, thou hast not spared. (Lam. 2:17,21)
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Lam. 3:43• 43Thou hast covered thyself with anger, and pursued us; thou hast slain, thou hast not spared. (Lam. 3:43)
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Job 2:3• 3And Jehovah said to Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God and abstaineth from evil? and still he remaineth firm in his integrity, though thou movedst me against him, to swallow him up without cause. (Job 2:3)
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Job 2•  (Job 2)
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Psa. 21:9• 9Thou shalt make them as a fiery furnace in the time of thy presence; Jehovah shall swallow them up in his anger, and the fire shall devour them: (Psa. 21:9)
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Isa. 27:11• 11When its branches are withered they shall be broken off; women shall come and set them on fire. For it is a people of no intelligence; therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he who formed them will shew them no favour. (Isa. 27:11)
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Jer. 13:14• 14And I will dash them one against another, both the fathers and the sons together, saith Jehovah; I will not pity, nor spare, nor have mercy so as not to destroy them. (Jer. 13:14)
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Jer. 21:7• 7And afterwards, saith Jehovah, I will give Zedekiah king of Judah, and his servants, and the people, and such as are left in this city from the pestilence, from the sword, and from the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, and into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those that seek their life, and he shall smite them with the edge of the sword: he shall not spare them, neither have pity, nor have mercy. (Jer. 21:7)
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Ezek. 5:11• 11Wherefore, as I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, verily because thou hast defiled my sanctuary with all thy detestable things, and with all thine abominations, therefore will I also withdraw mine eye, and it shall not spare, nor will I have any pity. (Ezek. 5:11)
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Ezek. 7:4,9• 4And mine eye shall not spare thee, neither will I have pity; but I will bring thy ways upon thee, and thine abominations shall be in the midst of thee; and ye shall know that I am Jehovah.
 9And mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: I will render unto thee according to thy ways, and thine abominations shall be in the midst of thee; and ye shall know that it is I, Jehovah, that smite. (Ezek. 7:4,9)
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Ezek. 8:18• 18And I also will deal in fury: mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity; and though they cry in mine ears with a loud voice, I will not hear them. (Ezek. 8:18)
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Ezek. 9:10• 10And as for me also, mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: I will recompense their way upon their head. (Ezek. 9:10)
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Zech. 11:5‑6• 5whose possessors slay them without being held guilty; and they that sell them say, Blessed be Jehovah! for I am become rich; and their own shepherds pity them not.
 6For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land, saith Jehovah, and behold, I will deliver men, every one into his neighbour's hand, and into the hand of his king; and they shall smite the land, and I will not deliver out of their hand. (Zech. 11:5‑6)
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Matt. 18:33• 33shouldest not thou also have had compassion on thy fellow-bondman, as *I* also had compassion on thee? (Matt. 18:33)
he hath thrown.
Lam. 2:5,17• 5The Lord is become as an enemy: he hath swallowed up Israel; he hath swallowed up all her palaces; he hath destroyed his strongholds, and hath multiplied in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.
 17Jehovah hath done what he had devised; he hath fulfilled his word which he had commanded from the days of old: he hath thrown down, and hath not spared, and he hath caused the enemy to rejoice over thee; he hath set up the horn of thine adversaries. (Lam. 2:5,17)
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Jer. 5:10• 10Go up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end; take away her battlements, for they are not Jehovah's. (Jer. 5:10)
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Mic. 5:11‑12• 11And I will cut off the cities of thy land, and overthrow all thy strongholds.
 12And I will cut off sorceries out of thy hand; and thou shalt have no soothsayers. (Mic. 5:11‑12)
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Mal. 1:4• 4If Edom say, We are broken down, but we will build again the ruined places,--thus saith Jehovah of hosts: They shall build, but I will throw down; and men shall call them the territory of wickedness, and the people against whom Jehovah hath indignation for ever. (Mal. 1:4)
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2 Cor. 10:4• 4For the arms of our warfare are not fleshly, but powerful according to God to the overthrow of strongholds; (2 Cor. 10:4)
brought them down to.
Heb. made to touch.
Isa. 25:12• 12And the fortress of the high defences of thy walls will he bring down, lay low, bring to the ground, into the dust. (Isa. 25:12)
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Isa. 26:5• 5For he bringeth down them that dwell on high; the lofty city, he layeth it low, he layeth it low to the ground, he bringeth it even to the dust. (Isa. 26:5)
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Psa. 89:39• 39Thou hast made void the covenant of thy servant; thou hast profaned his crown to the ground: (Psa. 89:39)
polluted.
Psa. 89:39‑40• 39Thou hast made void the covenant of thy servant; thou hast profaned his crown to the ground:
 40Thou hast broken down all his hedges; thou hast brought his strongholds to ruin. (Psa. 89:39‑40)
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Isa. 23:9• 9Jehovah of hosts hath purposed it, to profane the pride of all glory, to bring to nought all the honourable of the earth. (Isa. 23:9)
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Isa. 23•  (Isa. 23)
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Isa. 43:28• 28And I have profaned the princes of the sanctuary, and have given Jacob to the ban, and Israel to reproaches. (Isa. 43:28)
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Isa. 47:6• 6I was wroth with my people, I polluted mine inheritance, and gave them into thy hand: thou didst shew them no mercy; upon the aged didst thou very heavily lay thy yoke; (Isa. 47:6)

J. N. Darby Translation

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The Lord hath swallowed up all the dwellings of Jacob, and hath not spared; he hath thrown down in his wrath the strongholds of the daughter of Judah: he hath brought them down to the ground; he hath profaned the kingdom and the princes thereof.