Lamentations 2:6
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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.He has laid waste His tabernacle like a garden booth; He has destroyed His place of meeting. The LORD has made Zion forget her appointed feasts and Sabbaths. In His fierce anger He has despised both king and priest.
In other translations
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.He has laid waste His tabernacle like a garden booth; He has destroyed His place of meeting. The LORD has made Zion forget her appointed feasts and Sabbaths. In His fierce anger He has despised both king and priest.
Hebrew words
וַיַּחְמֹסvaiyachmosand he has treated violentlyH2554כַּגַּןkaganlike <the> gardenH1588שֻׂכּוֹsukobooth hisH7900שִׁחֵתshichethe has ruinedH7843מוֹעֲדוֹmo'adoappointed place hisH4150שִׁכַּחshikachhe has caused to be forgottenH7911יְהוָה׀yahwehYahwehH3068בְּצִיּוֹןbetziyonin ZionH6726מוֹעֵדmo'edappointed feastH4150וְשַׁבָּתveshabatand sabbathH7676וַיִּנְאַץvaiyin'atzand he has spurnedH5006בְּזַעַם־beza'am-in [the] indignation ofH2195אַפּוֹ'apoanger hisH639מֶלֶךְmelekhkingH4428וְכֹהֵן׃ סvekhohenand priestH3548
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Related verses
- Lamentations 1:4The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitterness.The roads to Zion mourn, because no one comes to her appointed feasts. All her gates are deserted; her priests groan, her maidens grieve, and she herself is bitter with anguish.
- Zephaniah 3:18I will gather them that are sorrowful for the solemn assembly, who are of thee, to whom the reproach of it was a burden.“I will gather those among you who grieve over the appointed feasts, so that you will no longer suffer reproach.
- Lamentations 4:16The anger of the Lord hath divided them; he will no more regard them: they respected not the persons of the priests, they favoured not the elders.The presence of the LORD has scattered them; He regards them no more. The priests are shown no honor; the elders find no favor.
- Isaiah 43:28Therefore I have profaned the princes of the sanctuary, and have given Jacob to the curse, and Israel to reproaches.So I will disgrace the princes of your sanctuary, and I will devote Jacob to destruction and Israel to reproach.”
- Jeremiah 52:11-2711 Then he put out the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound him in chains, and carried him to Babylon, and put him in prison till the day of his death. 12 Now in the fifth month, in the tenth day of the month, which was the nineteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, came Nebuzar–adan, captain of the guard, which served the king of Babylon, into Jerusalem, 13 And burned the house of the Lord, and the king’s house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, and all the houses of the great men, burned he with fire: 14 And all the army of the Chaldeans, that were with the captain of the guard, brake down all the walls of Jerusalem round about.11 Then he put out Zedekiah’s eyes, bound him with bronze shackles, and took him to Babylon, where he kept him in custody until his dying day. 12 On the tenth day of the fifth month, in the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar’s reign over Babylon, Nebuzaradan captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, entered Jerusalem. 13 He burned down the house of the LORD, the royal palace, and all the houses of Jerusalem—every significant building. 14 And the whole army of the Chaldeans under the captain of the guard broke down all the walls around Jerusalem.
- Isaiah 64:11Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is burned up with fire: and all our pleasant things are laid waste.Our holy and beautiful temple, where our fathers praised You, has been burned with fire, and all that was dear to us lies in ruins.
- Psalm 89:40Thou hast broken down all his hedges; thou hast brought his strong holds to ruin.You have broken down all his walls; You have reduced his strongholds to rubble.
- Ezekiel 12:12-1312 And the prince that is among them shall bear upon his shoulder in the twilight, and shall go forth: they shall dig through the wall to carry out thereby: he shall cover his face, that he see not the ground with his eyes. 13 My net also will I spread upon him, and he shall be taken in my snare: and I will bring him to Babylon to the land of the Chaldeans; yet shall he not see it, though he shall die there.12 And at dusk the prince among them will lift his bags to his shoulder and go out. They will dig through the wall to bring him out. He will cover his face so he cannot see the land. 13 But I will spread My net over him, and he will be caught in My snare. I will bring him to Babylon, the land of the Chaldeans; yet he will not see it, and there he will die.
- Malachi 2:9Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according as ye have not kept my ways, but have been partial in the law.“So I in turn have made you despised and humiliated before all the people, because you have not kept My ways, but have shown partiality in matters of the law.”
- Lamentations 5:12Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.Princes have been hung up by their hands; elders receive no respect.
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