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Book of Lamentations, Chapter 2

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Chapter 2 of Lamentations—New American Standard Bible (NASB)

  1. ¶ How the Lord has 1covered the daughter of Zion
    With a cloud in His anger!
    He has 2cast from heaven to earth
    The 3glory of Israel,
    And has not remembered His 4footstool
    In the day of His anger.
  2. The Lord has 5swallowed up; He has not spared
    All the habitations of Jacob.
    In His wrath He has 6thrown down
    The strongholds of the daughter of Judah;
    He has 7brought them down to the ground;
    He has 8profaned the kingdom and its princes.
  3. In fierce anger He has cut off
    [a]All the 9strength of Israel;
    He has 10drawn back His right hand
    From before the enemy.
    And He has 11burned in Jacob like a flaming fire
    Consuming round about.
  4. He has bent His 12bow like an enemy;
    He has set His right hand like an adversary
    And slain all that were 13pleasant to the eye;
    In the tent of the daughter of Zion
    He has 14poured out His wrath like fire.
  5. The Lord has become like an 15enemy.
    He has 16swallowed up Israel;
    He has swallowed up all its 17palaces,
    He has destroyed its strongholds
    And 18multiplied in the daughter of Judah
    Mourning and moaning.
  6. And He has violently treated His [b]tabernacle like a garden booth;
    He has 19destroyed His appointed [c]meeting place.
    The LORD has 20caused to be forgotten
    The appointed feast and sabbath in Zion,
    And He has 21despised king and priest
    In the indignation of His anger.
  7. The Lord has 22rejected His altar,
    He has abandoned His sanctuary;
    He 23has delivered into the hand of the enemy
    The walls of her palaces.
    They have made a 24noise in the house of the LORD
    As in the day of an appointed feast.
  8. The LORD [d]determined to destroy
    The wall of the daughter of Zion.
    He has 25stretched out a line,
    He has not restrained His hand from [e]destroying,
    And He has 26caused rampart and wall to lament;
    They have languished together.
  9. Her 27gates have sunk into the ground,
    He has destroyed and broken her bars.
    Her king and her princes are among the nations;
    The 28law is no more.
    Also, her prophets find
    29No vision from the LORD.
  10. The elders of the daughter of Zion
    30Sit on the ground, they 31are silent.
    They have thrown 32dust on their heads;
    They have girded themselves with 33sackcloth.
    The 34virgins of Jerusalem
    Have bowed their heads to the ground.
  11. My 35eyes fail because of tears,
    My [f]36spirit is greatly troubled;
    My [g]37heart is poured out on the earth
    38Because of the [h]destruction of the daughter of my people,
    When 39little ones and infants faint
    In the streets of the city.
  12. They say to their mothers,
    “40Where is grain and wine?”
    As they faint like a wounded man
    In the streets of the city,
    As their 41life is poured out
    On their mothers’ bosom.
  13. How shall I admonish you?
    To what 42shall I compare you,
    O daughter of Jerusalem?
    To what shall I liken you as I comfort you,
    O 43virgin daughter of Zion?
    For your [i]ruin is as vast as the sea;
    Who can 44heal you?
  14. Your 45prophets have seen for you
    False and foolish visions;
    And they have not 46exposed your iniquity
    So as to restore you from captivity,
    But they have 47seen for you false and misleading [j]oracles.
  15. All who pass along the way
    48Clap their hands in derision at you;
    They 49hiss and shake their heads
    At the daughter of Jerusalem,
    “Is this the city of which they said,
    ‘50The perfection of beauty,
    51A joy to all the earth’?”
  16. All 52your enemies
    Have opened their mouths wide against you;
    They hiss and 53gnash their teeth.
    They say, “We have 54swallowed her up!
    Surely this is the 55day for which we waited;
    We have reached it, we have seen it.”
  17. The LORD has 56done what He purposed;
    He has accomplished His word
    Which He commanded from days of old.
    He has thrown down 57without sparing,
    And He has caused the enemy to 58rejoice over you;
    He has 59exalted the [k]might of your adversaries.
  18. Their 60heart cried out to the Lord,
    “O 61wall of the daughter of Zion,
    Let your 62tears run down like a river day and night;
    Give yourself no relief,
    Let [l]your eyes have no rest.
  19. “Arise, cry aloud in the 63night
    At the beginning of the night watches;
    64Pour out your heart like water
    Before the presence of the Lord;
    Lift up your hands to Him
    For the 65life of your little ones
    Who are 66faint because of hunger
    At the head of every street.”
  20. See, O LORD, and look!
    With 67whom have You dealt thus?
    Should women 68eat their [m]offspring,
    The little ones who were [n]born healthy?
    Should 69priest and prophet be slain
    In the sanctuary of the Lord?
  21. On the ground in the streets
    Lie 70young and old;
    My 71virgins and my young men
    Have fallen by the sword.
    You have slain them in the day of Your anger,
    You have slaughtered, 72not sparing.
  22. You called as in the day of an appointed feast
    My 73terrors on every side;
    And there was 74no one who escaped or survived
    In the day of the LORD’S anger.
    Those 75whom I [o]bore and reared,
    My enemy annihilated them.

FOOTNOTES

  1. ^ Lit Every horn
  2. ^ Lit booth
  3. ^ Or feast
  4. ^ Lit thought
  5. ^ Lit swallowing up
  6. ^ Lit inward parts are in ferment
  7. ^ Lit liver
  8. ^ Lit breaking
  9. ^ Lit breaking
  10. ^ Lit burdens
  11. ^ Lit horn
  12. ^ Lit the daughter of your eye
  13. ^ Lit fruit
  14. ^ Or tenderly cared for
  15. ^ Lit bore healthy or, tenderly cared for

REFERENCES

  1. ^ Eze 30:18
  2. ^ Is 14:12-15; Eze 28:14-16
  3. ^ Is 64:11
  4. ^ Ps 99:5; 132:7
  5. ^ Ps 21:9; La 3:43
  6. ^ La 2:5; Mc 5:11, 14
  7. ^ Is 25:12; 26:5
  8. ^ Ps 89:39, 40; Is 43:28
  9. ^ Ps 75:5, 10; Je 48:25
  10. ^ Ps 74:11; Je 21:4, 5
  11. ^ Is 42:25; Je 21:14
  12. ^ Jb 6:4; 16:13; La 3:12, 13
  13. ^ Eze 24:25
  14. ^ Is 42:25; Je 7:20
  15. ^ Je 30:14
  16. ^ La 2:2
  17. ^ Je 52:13; La 2:2
  18. ^ Je 9:17-20
  19. ^ Je 52:13
  20. ^ Je 17:27; La 1:4; Zp 3:18
  21. ^ La 4:16
  22. ^ Ps 78:59-61; Is 64:11; Eze 7:20-22
  23. ^ Je 33:4, 5; 52:13
  24. ^ Ps 74:3-8
  25. ^ 2Ki 21:13; Is 34:11; Am 7:7-9
  26. ^ Is 3:26; Je 14:2
  27. ^ Ne 1:3
  28. ^ Ho 3:4
  29. ^ Je 14:14; 23:16; Eze 7:26
  30. ^ Jb 2:13; Is 3:26; 47:1
  31. ^ Am 8:3
  32. ^ Jb 2:12; Eze 27:30
  33. ^ Is 15:3; Jon 3:6-8
  34. ^ La 1:4
  35. ^ La 1:16; 3:48, 51
  36. ^ Je 4:19
  37. ^ Jb 16:13
  38. ^ Is 22:4; La 4:10
  39. ^ Je 44:7; La 2:19
  40. ^ Je 5:17
  41. ^ Jb 30:16; Ps 42:4; 62:8
  42. ^ La 1:12
  43. ^ Is 37:22
  44. ^ Je 8:22; 30:12-15
  45. ^ Je 23:25-29; 29:8, 9
  46. ^ Is 58:1; Eze 23:36; Mc 3:8
  47. ^ Je 23:36; Eze 22:25, 28
  48. ^ Jb 27:23; Eze 25:6
  49. ^ Ps 22:7; Is 37:22; Je 18:16; 19:8; Zp 2:15
  50. ^ Ps 50:2
  51. ^ Ps 48:2
  52. ^ Jb 16:10; Ps 22:13; La 3:46
  53. ^ Jb 16:9; Ps 35:16; 37:12
  54. ^ Ps 56:2; 124:3; Je 51:34
  55. ^ Ob 12-15
  56. ^ Je 4:28
  57. ^ La 2:1, 2; Eze 5:11; 7:8, 9; 8:18
  58. ^ Ps 35:24, 26; 89:42; Is 14:29
  59. ^ De 28:43, 44; La 1:5
  60. ^ Ps 119:145; Ho 7:14
  61. ^ La 2:8; Hab 2:11
  62. ^ Ps 119:136; Je 9:1; La 1:2, 16; 3:48, 49
  63. ^ Ps 42:3; Is 26:9
  64. ^ 1Sa 1:15; Ps 42:4; 62:8
  65. ^ La 2:11
  66. ^ Is 51:20
  67. ^ Ex 32:11; De 9:26
  68. ^ Je 19:9; La 4:10
  69. ^ Ps 78:64; Je 14:15; 23:11, 12
  70. ^ 2Ch 36:17; Je 6:11
  71. ^ Ps 78:62, 63
  72. ^ Je 13:14; Zc 11:6
  73. ^ Ps 31:13; Is 24:17; Je 6:25
  74. ^ Je 11:11
  75. ^ Je 16:2-4; 44:7

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Comments

  1. Kiamia DoelKiamia Doel
    Jan 9, 2025 23:00 GMT

    The NWT adds words to the text that are not in the greek Manuscripts to fit it's own doctrinal position for example

    Compare the wording of the NWT and the NKJV at Colossians 1:15-17

    NKJV says

    15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. 16 For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. 17 And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist.

    NWT says

    15 He is the image of the invisible God,the firstborn OF all creation;16 because by means of him all OTHER things were created in the heavens and on the earth, the things visible and the things invisible,whether they are thrones or lordships or governments or authorities. All OTHER things have been created through him and for him. 17 Also, he is before all OTHER things,and by means of him all OTHER things were made to exist,

    The word “other” is not in the Greek but they add it Why? So they can decieve their followers into thinking that Christ was created by the Father and that he then created other things, that is not what the Greek says.

    1. SmeSme
      Feb 27, 2025 11:17 GMT

      Truth is from God and those that follow him. As for lies? John8:44

      Kiamia, I noticed you used a modern version of kjv to make your point about the nwt.

      Why didn’t you use the original kjv of col1:15?

      Is it because it disproves your point? It proves the opposite of what you wrote?

      Here is kjv col1:15 ¶” Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn OF every creature:“

      Now I appeal to your Christian nature to correct your mistake as God is watching each of us, and let us bless the God of Jesus his father.

      Kjv 1Pe 1:3  Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ….

  2. YanekYanek
    Dec 24, 2024 22:18 GMT

    Joshua, Jehovah’s Witnesses have never denied the deity of the Messiah in his prehuman existence. While on Earth he was fully 100% human. I do not mean he was a mere human, he was not affected by Adam’s unfaithful behavior, he was sinless.

  3. David yakubuDavid yakubu
    Oct 29, 2022 08:05 GMT

    When i do read some comments and seeing that its the same people that are supposed to be called believers but are talking ill of other denominations, it hurts. Let us all remember that We should judge not

    1. jonas smithjonas smith
      Apr 23, 2023 02:57 GMT

      The bible tells us to test the spirits. Satan disguises himself as angel of light. So yes some denomination are not teaching the truth. You are responsible for judging which ones are not. You have to judge the truth at all times. this is what the bible teaches

  4. THTH
    Apr 7, 2021 00:20 GMT

    The NWT is a very good translation. Dr. Jason David BeDuhn PhD attests to that in his book Truth in Translation. drive.google.com/...5p16melHzg8/view

    1. James LernerJames Lerner
      Jul 20, 2024 09:48 GMT

      The NWT is Satanic filth to its very core.

      The JW Cult is Satanic to its very core.

      Praise Yahweh I will never be a victim of JW brainwashing. If I burn in Hell for eternity or I am ultimately annihilated so be it

      May Yahweh's curse rest on the Watchtower Society and its Satanic leadership

    2. jim mcleodjim mcleod
      Aug 22, 2021 06:16 GMT

      NWT is a false translation that takes away from the deity of Jesus !

  5. SlightlyChaoticSlightlyChaotic
    Jan 30, 2021 16:33 GMT

    Thank you for taking the time to provide this service. I like seeing the NASB on your web page in the same format as I read on paper. On other sites, the text area is smaller, and so I have to keep scrolling down to read and sometimes I lose the context. So I really appreciate the format.

    As far as the NWT, you are certainly free to do whatever you think best with your own web pages. I'd suggest that you make a note anytime you have a translation that is associated with only one denomination or church, for example:
    New World Translation (Jehovah's Witness version).

    In Jesus' parable of the wheat and the tares. the main idea seems to be that you can't easily distinguish between God's people and not-God's people on this earth, so our Lord's response is to wait until they are shown to be the kind of people they are inside. But the NWT seems like false teaching to me. So I think the warning passages from Jesus' apostles are more applicable, as in 2 Peter 3:15-16, when he talks about Paul's writings:
    "There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures."
    And we also have the positive exhortations, as in 2 Timothy 2:15:
    "Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth."

    1. BroderickBroderick
      Jan 31, 2021 00:57 GMT

      Your suggestion regarding the denominational flagging is duly noted. But I can’t help but wonder, wouldn’t a Catholic also want “Protestant versions” marked as well?

      As for the parable, I’m pretty sure the slaves were convinced in their own minds that they could tell the tares from the wheat. After all, aren’t they the ones who identified the problem in the first place? But the master obviously thought otherwise.

      Furthermore, even at the time when Jesus himself was walking the earth, not everybody who claimed fellowship actually followed him causing John to inquire at Mark 9:39, “Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in Your name, and we tried to prevent him because he was not following us.” But Jesus said, “Do not hinder him . . . for he who is not against us is for us.”

  6. Joshua HarderJoshua Harder
    Dec 11, 2020 17:48 GMT

    Hello, question.. why have you included the NWT with other legitimate bible translations? Or why have you not atleast included a warning to readers? Don't you fear that someone could be influenced by the Watchtower's intentional heresies? Thank you.

    1. KevinKevin
      Jul 11, 2021 17:45 GMT

      en.m.wikipedia.org/..._Holy_Scriptures

      See the section critical review

    2. ChrisChris
      Jan 8, 2021 07:15 GMT

      Please site these intentional heresies. I am well versed in the watch tower outline and agree they are in many ways incorrect but i also bet i can point many out from EVERY established or main denomination. There is much to learn from them all as one who drinks milk?

      Judge not lest ye be judged, that is not to pass judgement on you either brother.

      I debate with scripture. I don't hold it to be true that Michael is Y'Shua HaMeshiach but I also firmly hold it to be true that our G-d and Heavenly Father are not the word encarnate and only begotten son.

      I love not seeing "lord" which i relate to baal. I feel the catholic church is a satanic establishment and I am aware a freemason started the hovies but there are evil in high places and our fight is also with principalities.

      What i'm saying is that in my darkest hours, those two were some of if not the only ones who would bring a Bible and eucharist and pray with me.

      We all fall short of the glory of G-d.

      Don't forget the NWT was recognized as the most accurate translation on Jeopardy.

      Lastly, this is different I noted than the NWT i have read and am very familiar with. Pull up the watchtower page and compare. I truly look forward to getting this one!

  7. julietjuliet
    Aug 17, 2022 09:36 GMT

    the sky is blue

  8. mercymercy
    Aug 12, 2022 21:23 GMT

    i am Mercy, the sky is blue what else do you need

    1. mercymercy
      Aug 12, 2022 21:25 GMT

      i am so sorry, it was a big mistake

  9. God is able to do all thingsGod is able to do all things
    May 17, 2021 17:59 GMT

    Jesus how much love calling yo name

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