Lamentations 2:7

Lamentations 2:7 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)The Lord hath cast off his altar, he hath abhorred his sanctuary, he hath given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces; they have made a noise in the house of the Lord, as in the day of a solemn feast.
• New International Version (NIV)The Lord has rejected his altar and abandoned his sanctuary. He has given the walls of her palaces into the hands of the enemy; they have raised a shout in the house of the Lord as on the day of an appointed festival.
• English Standard Version (ESV)The 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.
• New King James Version (NKJV)The Lord has spurned His altar, He has abandoned His sanctuary; He has given up the walls of her palaces Into the hand of the enemy. They have made a noise in the house of the Lord As on the day of a set feast.

Context of Lamentations 2:7

5The Lord has become like an enemy. He has swallowed up Israel; He has swallowed up all its palaces, He has destroyed its strongholds And multiplied in the daughter of Judah Mourning and moaning. 6And He has violently treated His tabernacle like a garden booth; He has destroyed His appointed meeting place. The Lord has caused to be forgotten The appointed feast and sabbath in Zion, And He has despised king and priest In the indignation of His anger. The Lord has rejected His altar, He has abandoned His sanctuary; He has delivered into the hand of the enemy The walls of her palaces. They have made a noise in the house of the Lord As in the day of an appointed feast. 8The Lord determined to destroy The wall of the daughter of Zion. He has stretched out a line, He has not restrained His hand from destroying, And He has caused rampart and wall to lament; They have languished together. 9Her gates have sunk into the ground, He has destroyed and broken her bars. Her king and her princes are among the nations; The law is no more. Also, her prophets find No vision from the Lord.

Lamentations 2:7 word by word

זָנַ֨ח אֲדֹנָ֤י׀ מִזְבְּחוֹ֙ נִאֵ֣ר מִקְדָּשׁ֔וֹ הִסְגִּיר֙ בְּיַד־אוֹיֵ֔ב חוֹמֹ֖ת אַרְמְנוֹתֶ֑יהָ ק֛וֹל נָתְנ֥וּ בְּבֵית־יְהוָ֖ה כְּי֥וֹם מוֹעֵֽד׃ סRead the interlinear

• The Lordאֲדֹנָי'ădônây · LordH136
• rejectedזָנַחzânach · to rejectH2186
• His altarמִזְבֵּחַmizbêach · altarH4196
• He has abandonedנָאַרnâ'ar · to disownH5010
• His sanctuaryמִקְדָּשׁmiqdâsh miqqedâsh · sanctuaryH4720
• has deliveredסָגַרsâgar · to shutH5462
• into the handיָדyâd · hand: powerH3027
• of the enemyאָיַב'âyab · be hostileH340
• The wallsחוֹמָהchômâh · wallH2346
• of her palacesאַרְמוֹן'armôn · citadel: palaceH759
• They have madeנָתַןnâthan · to give: cry outH5414
• noiseקוֹלqôl qôl · voice: soundH6963
• in the houseבַּ֫יִתbayith · house: templeH1004
• of the Lordיְהֹוָהyehôvâh · LORDH3068
• As in the dayיוֹםyôm · dayH3117
• of an appointedמוֹעֵדmô‛êd mô‛êd mô‛âdâh · meeting: festivalH4150
• feastמוֹעֵדmô‛êd mô‛êd mô‛âdâh · meeting: festivalH4150

Cross-references for Lamentations 2:7

• Lamentations 2:1How the Lord has covered the daughter of Zion With a cloud in His anger! He has cast from heaven to earth The glory of Israel, And has not remembered His footstool In the day of His anger.
• Leviticus 26:31I will lay waste your cities as well and will make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will not smell your soothing aromas.
• Psalms 78:59When God heard, He was filled with wrath And greatly abhorred Israel;
• Isaiah 64:10Your holy cities have become a wilderness, Zion has become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
• Jeremiah 7:12“But go now to My place which was in Shiloh, where I made My name dwell at the first, and see what I did to it because of the wickedness of My people Israel.
• Jeremiah 26:6then I will make this house like Shiloh, and this city I will make a curse to all the nations of the earth.”’”
• Jeremiah 51:13O you who dwell by many waters, Abundant in treasures, Your end has come, The measure of your end.
• Ezekiel 7:20They transformed the beauty of His ornaments into pride, and they made the images of their abominations and their detestable things with it; therefore I will make it an abhorrent thing to them.
• Ezekiel 24:21‘Speak to the house of Israel, “Thus says the Lord God, ‘Behold, I am about to profane My sanctuary, the pride of your power, the desire of your eyes and the delight of your soul; and your sons and your daughters whom you have left behind will fall by the sword.
• Micah 3:12Therefore, on account of you Zion will be plowed as a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of ruins, And the mountain of the temple will become high places of a forest.
• Matthew 24:2And He said to them, “Do you not see all these things? Truly I say to you, not one stone here will be left upon another, which will not be torn down.”
• Acts 6:13They put forward false witnesses who said, “This man incessantly speaks against this holy place and the Law;
• Lamentations 2:5The Lord has become like an enemy. He has swallowed up Israel; He has swallowed up all its palaces, He has destroyed its strongholds And multiplied in the daughter of Judah Mourning and moaning.
• 2 Chronicles 36:19Then they burned the house of God and broke down the wall of Jerusalem, and burned all its fortified buildings with fire and destroyed all its valuable articles.
• Jeremiah 32:29The Chaldeans who are fighting against this city will enter and set this city on fire and burn it, with the houses where people have offered incense to Baal on their roofs and poured out drink offerings to other gods to provoke Me to anger.
• Jeremiah 33:3‘Call to Me and I will answer you, and I will tell you great and mighty things, which you do not know.’

Commentaries on Lamentations 2:7

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 7They have made a noise in the house of the Lord - Instead of the silver trumpets of the sanctuary, nothing but the sounds of warlike instruments are to be heard.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 7sanctuary - The holy of holies; “the walls of her palaces” are those of the sacred buildings.Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 7The temple was destroyed because the priests and the people sinned inside it. Their sins made the temple ceremonially unclean and brought God’s judgment on it (see Jeremiah 7:3–15; 26:3–6, 12–13; Ezekiel 24:21).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 77. they ... made a noise in ... house of ... Lord, as in ... feast--The foe's shout of triumph in the captured temple bore a resemblance (but oh, how sad a contrast as to the occasion of it!) to the joyous thanksgivings we used to offer in the same place at our "solemn feasts" (compare La 2:22). Cheth.Read the comment

Topics related to Lamentations 2:7

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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