Lamentations 2:6

Lamentations 2:6 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden: he hath destroyed his places of the assembly: the Lord hath caused the solemn feasts and sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion, and hath despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest.
• New International Version (NIV)He has laid waste his dwelling like a garden; he has destroyed his place of meeting. The Lord has made Zion forget her appointed festivals and her Sabbaths; in his fierce anger he has spurned both king and priest.
• New King James Version (NKJV)He has done violence to His tabernacle, As if it were a garden; He has destroyed His place of assembly; The Lord has caused The appointed feasts and Sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion. In His burning indignation He has spurned the king and the priest.
• New Living Translation (NLT)He has broken down his Temple as though it were merely a garden shelter. The Lord has blotted out all memory of the holy festivals and Sabbath days. Kings and priests fall together before his fierce anger.

Context of Lamentations 2:6

4He has bent his bow like an enemy, with his right hand set like a foe; and he has killed all who were delightful in our eyes in the tent of the daughter of Zion; he has poured out his fury like fire. 5The Lord has become like an enemy; he has swallowed up Israel; he has swallowed up all its palaces; he has laid in ruins its strongholds, and he has multiplied in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation. He has laid waste his booth like a garden, laid in ruins his meeting place; the Lord has made Zion forget festival and Sabbath, and in his fierce indignation has spurned king and priest. 7The Lord has scorned his altar, disowned his sanctuary; he has delivered into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces; they raised a clamor in the house of the Lord as on the day of festival. 8The Lord determined to lay in ruins the wall of the daughter of Zion; he stretched out the measuring line; he did not restrain his hand from destroying; he caused rampart and wall to lament; they languished together.

Lamentations 2:6 word by word

וַיַּחְמֹ֤ס כַּגַּן֙ שֻׂכּ֔וֹ שִׁחֵ֖ת מוֹעֲד֑וֹ שִׁכַּ֨ח יְהוָ֤ה׀ בְּצִיּוֹן֙ מוֹעֵ֣ד וְשַׁבָּ֔ת וַיִּנְאַ֥ץ בְּזַֽעַם־אַפּ֖וֹ מֶ֥לֶךְ וְכֹהֵֽן׃ סRead the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• And he hath violently taken awayחָמַסchâmas · to injureH2554
• his tabernacleשֹׂךְώôk · boothH7900
• a gardenגַּןgan · gardenH1588
• he hath destroyedשָׁחַתshâchath · to ruinH7843
• his places of the assemblyמוֹעֵדmô‛êd mô‛êd mô‛âdâh · meetingH4150
• the Lordיְהֹוָהyehôvâh · LORDH3068
• hath caused the solemn feastsמוֹעֵדmô‛êd mô‛êd mô‛âdâh · meeting: festivalH4150
• and sabbathsשַׁבָּתshabbâth · SabbathH7676
• to be forgottenשָׁכַחshâkach shâkêach · to forgetH7911
• in Zionצִיּוֹןtsîyôn · ZionH6726
• and hath despisedנָאַץnâ'ats · to spurnH5006
• in the indignationזַ֫עַםza‛am · indignationH2195
• of his angerאַף'aph · face: angerH639
• the kingמֶ֫לֶךְmelek · kingH4428
• and the priestכֹּהֵןkôhên · priestH3548

Cross-references for Lamentations 2:6

• Psalms 80:12Why then have you broken down its walls, so that all who pass along the way pluck its fruit?
• Psalms 89:40You have breached all his walls; you have laid his strongholds in ruins.
• Isaiah 5:5And now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard. I will remove its hedge, and it shall be devoured; I will break down its wall, and it shall be trampled down.
• Isaiah 63:18Your holy people held possession for a little while; our adversaries have trampled down your sanctuary.
• Isaiah 64:11Our holy and beautiful house, where our fathers praised you, has been burned by fire, and all our pleasant places have become ruins.
• Isaiah 1:8And the daughter of Zion is left like a booth in a vineyard, like a lodge in a cucumber field, like a besieged city.
• Lamentations 1:4The roads to Zion mourn, for none come to the festival; all her gates are desolate; her priests groan; her virgins have been afflicted, and she herself suffers bitterly.
• Zephaniah 3:18I will gather those of you who mourn for the festival, so that you will no longer suffer reproach.
• Lamentations 4:16The Lord himself has scattered them; he will regard them no more; no honor was shown to the priests, no favor to the elders.
• Lamentations 5:12Princes are hung up by their hands; no respect is shown to the elders.
• Isaiah 43:28Therefore I will profane the princes of the sanctuary, and deliver Jacob to utter destruction and Israel to reviling.
• Jeremiah 52:11He put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him in chains, and the king of Babylon took him to Babylon, and put him in prison till the day of his death.
• Ezekiel 12:12And the prince who is among them shall lift his baggage upon his shoulder at dusk, and shall go out. They shall dig through the wall to bring him out through it. He shall cover his face, that he may not see the land with his eyes.
• Ezekiel 17:18He despised the oath in breaking the covenant, and behold, he gave his hand and did all these things; he shall not escape.
• Malachi 2:9and so I make you despised and abased before all the people, inasmuch as you do not keep my ways but show partiality in your instruction."

Commentaries on Lamentations 2:6

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 6As if it were of a garden - "As it were the garden of his own hedging." - Blayney. The Lord hath caused the solemn feasts - By delivering us up into the hands of the enemy our religious worship is not only suspended, but all Divine ordinances are destroyed.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 6tabernacle - Or, covert Jeremiah 25:38, i. e. such a tent of boughs as was put up at the Feast of Tabernacles. The words mean, “the Lord hath (as) violently destroyed His booth. as a man might tear down a shed in “a garden.”” Compare Isaiah 1:8. His places of the assembly - Or, “His great festivals” (Lamentations 1:15 note). It is the Word rendered “solemn feasts” in the next clause, and rightly joined there with “sabbaths,” the weekly, as the other were…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 6A garden shelter was a temporary structure that harvesters set up to provide shade. God had promised to care for his temple forever (1 Kings 9:3), but now it seemed he had abandoned it.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 66. tabernacle--rather, "He hath violently taken away His hedge (the hedge of the place sacred to Him, Psa 80:12; 89:40; Is 5:5), as that of a garden" [Maurer]. Calvin supports English Version, "His tabernacle (that is, temple) as (one would take away the temporary cottage or booth) of a garden." Is 1:8 accords with this (Job 27:18). places of ... assembly--the temple and synagogues (Psa 74:7, 8). solemn feasts--(La 1:4). Zain.Read the comment

Topics related to Lamentations 2:6

• Anger
• Feasts
• Sabbath

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Commentaries on Lamentations 2

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings