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 engulfed Israel; He has engulfed all its palaces, He has destroyed its strongholds And caused great mourning and grieving in the daughter of Judah. 6And 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. The 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. 9Her gates have sunk into the ground, He has destroyed and broken her bars. Her king and her leaders are among the nations; The Law is gone. Her prophets, too, 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
• repudiatedנָאַרnâ'ar · to disownH5010
• His sanctuaryמִקְדָּשׁmiqdâsh miqqedâsh · sanctuaryH4720
• has handedסָגַרsâgar · to shutH5462
• has handedיָדyâd · hand: powerH3027
• The wallsחוֹמָהchômâh · wallH2346
• of her palacesאַרְמוֹן'armôn · citadel: palaceH759
• to the enemyאָיַב'âyab · be hostileH340
• They have madeנָתַןnâthan · to give: cry outH5414
• noiseקוֹלqôl qôl · voice: soundH6963
• in the houseבַּ֫יִתbayith · house: templeH1004
• of the Lordיְהֹוָהyehôvâh · LORDH3068
• As on 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 hurled The glory of Israel from heaven to earth, And has not remembered His footstool In the day of His anger.
• Leviticus 26:31I will turn your cities into ruins as well and make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will not smell your soothing aromas.
• Psalms 78:59When God heard them, He was filled with wrath And He utterly rejected 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 beginning, 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 I will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.”’”
• Jeremiah 51:13You who live by many waters, Abundant in treasures, Your end has come, The measure of your end.
• Ezekiel 7:20Moreover, they transformed the splendor of His jewels 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, “This is what the Lord God says: ‘Behold, I am about to profane My sanctuary, the pride of your power, that which is precious in your eyes and the longing 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 like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of ruins, And the mountain of the temple will become high places of a forest.
• Matthew 24:2But He responded and 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 does not stop speaking against this holy place and the Law;
• Lamentations 2:5The 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.
• 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 32:29And the 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