Lamentations 2:1-10

2:1

Lord <0136> [How.]

covered <05743> [covered.]

thrown down <07993> [and cast.]

splendor <08597> [the beauty.]

<01916> [his footstool.]

2:2

Bet <01104> [swallowed.]

tore <02040> [he hath thrown.]

knocked .... ground <05060 0776> [brought them down to. Heb. made to touch.]

humiliated <02490> [polluted.]

2:3

army <07161> [the horn.]

destroyed ........ withdrew <01438 07725> [he hath.]

<01197> [he burned.]

2:4

prepared <01869> [bent.]

strong young men <05869 04261> [that were pleasant to the eye. Heb. the desirable of the eye.]

poured out <08210> [he poured.]

2:5

enemy <0341> [was.]

destroyed Israel ... destroyed <01104 03478> [he hath swallowed up Israel.]

mourn <08386> [mourning.]

2:6

destroyed <02554> [he hath violently.]

"He hath destroyed the temple, as if it had been no better than a cottage erected in a garden, while the fruit is gathering, and then removed, or suffered to decay."

temple <07900> [tabernacle. or, hedge. as if.]

meeting place ............ festivals <04150> [caused.]

king <04428> [the king.]

2:7

rejected <02186> [cast off.]

<05462> [given up. Heb. shut up.]

shouted <05414> [they have.]

2:8

determined <02803> [purposed.]

prepared ... knock ... down <05186> [stretched.]

withdraw <07725> [he hath not.]

destroying <01104> [destroying. Heb. swallowing up.]

ramparts <02426> [he made.]

2:9

gates <08179> [gates.]

king <04428> [her king.]

guidance <08451> [the law.]

prophets <05030> [her prophets.]

2:10

elders <02205> [elders.]

sit <03427> [sit.]

Sitting on the ground was a posture of mourning and deep distress. Hence the coin struck by Vespasian, on the capture of Jerusalem, has on the obverse side a palm tree, the emblem of Judea, and under it a woman, the emblem of Jerusalem, sitting down, with her elbow on her knee, and her head supported by her hand, with the legend {Jud‘a capta.}

silence <01826> [and keep.]

thrown <05927> [cast up.]

dressed <02296> [they have girded.]

young women <01330> [the virgins.]