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.
• English Standard Version (ESV)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.
• 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.

Context of Lamentations 2:6

4He has bent His bow like an enemy; His right hand is positioned like an adversary, And He has killed everything that was pleasant to the eye. In the tent of the daughter of Zion He has poured out His wrath like fire. 5The Lord has become like an enemy. He has engulfed Israel; He has engulfed all its palaces, He has destroyed its strongholds And caused great mourning and grieving in the daughter of Judah. And He has treated His tabernacle violently, like a despised garden; He has destroyed His appointed meeting place. The Lord has caused The appointed feast and Sabbath in Zion to be forgotten, And He has despised king and priest In the indignation of His anger. 7The Lord has rejected His altar, He has repudiated His sanctuary; He has handed over The walls of her palaces to the enemy. They have made a noise in the house of the Lord As on 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 mourn; They have 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

• And He has treatedחָמַסchâmas · to injureH2554
• tabernacleשֹׂךְώôk · boothH7900
• gardenגַּןgan · gardenH1588
• destroyedשָׁחַתshâchath · to ruinH7843
• His appointedמוֹעֵדmô‛êd mô‛êd mô‛âdâh · meeting: festivalH4150
• placeמוֹעֵדmô‛êd mô‛êd mô‛âdâh · meetingH4150
• The Lordיְהֹוָהyehôvâh · LORDH3068
• The appointedמוֹעֵדmô‛êd mô‛êd mô‛âdâh · meeting: festivalH4150
• and Sabbathשַׁבָּתshabbâth · SabbathH7676
• in Zionצִיּוֹןtsîyôn · ZionH6726
• to be forgottenשָׁכַחshâkach shâkêach · to forgetH7911
• despisedנָאַץnâ'ats · to spurnH5006
• kingמֶ֫לֶךְmelek · kingH4428
• and priestכֹּהֵןkôhên · priestH3548
• In the indignationזַ֫עַםza‛am · indignationH2195
• of His angerאַף'aph · face: angerH639

Cross-references for Lamentations 2:6

• Psalms 80:12Why have You broken down its hedges, So that all who pass that way pick its fruit?
• Psalms 89:40You have broken down all his walls; You have brought his strongholds to ruin.
• Isaiah 5:5So now let Me tell you what I am going to do to My vineyard: I will remove its hedge and it will be consumed; I will break down its wall and it will become trampled ground.
• Isaiah 63:18Your holy people possessed Your sanctuary for a little while, Our adversaries have trampled it down.
• Isaiah 64:11Our holy and beautiful house, Where our fathers praised You, Has been burned by fire; And all our precious things have become a ruin.
• Isaiah 1:8The daughter of Zion is left like a shelter in a vineyard, Like a watchman’s hut in a cucumber field, like a city under watch.
• Lamentations 1:4The roads of Zion are in mourning Because no one comes to an appointed feast. All her gates are deserted; Her priests groan, Her virgins are worried, And as for Zion herself, it is bitter for her.
• Zephaniah 3:18I will gather those who are worried about the appointed feasts-- They came from you, Zion; The disgrace of exile is a burden on them.
• Lamentations 4:16The presence of the Lord has scattered them, He will not continue to look at them; They did not honor the priests, They did not favor the elders.
• Lamentations 5:12Leaders were hung by their hands; Elders were not respected.
• Isaiah 43:28So I will profane the officials of the sanctuary, And I will turn Jacob over to destruction and Israel to abuse.
• Jeremiah 52:11Then he blinded the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound him with bronze shackles and brought him to Babylon and put him in prison until the day of his death.
• Ezekiel 12:12The prince who is among them will load his baggage on his shoulder in the dark and go out. They will dig a hole through the wall to bring it out through it. He will cover his face so that he cannot see the land with his eyes.
• Ezekiel 17:18Now he despised the oath by breaking the covenant, and behold, he pledged his allegiance, yet did all these things; he shall not escape.’”
• Malachi 2:9“So I also have made you despised and of low reputation in the view of all the people, since you are not keeping My ways but are showing partiality in the 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