Lamentations 2:6 “He has laid waste His tabernacle like a garden booth; He has destroyed…”

Lamentations 2:6

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.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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.

World English Bible

He has violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were a garden. He has destroyed his place of assembly. The LORD has caused solemn assembly and Sabbath to be forgotten in Zion. In the indignation of his anger, he has despised the king and the priest.

American Standard Version

And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden; he hath destroyed his place of assembly: Jehovah hath caused solemn assembly and sabbath to be forgotten in Zion, And hath despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest.

Geneva Bible 1599

For hee hath destroyed his Tabernacle, as a garden, hee hath destroyed his Congregation: the Lord hath caused the feastes and Sabbathes to bee forgotten in Zion, and hath despised in the indignation of his wrath the King and the Priest.

Darby Translation

And he hath violently cast down his enclosure as a garden; he hath destroyed his place of assembly: Jehovah hath caused set feast and sabbath to be forgotten in Zion, and hath despised in the indignation of his anger king and priest.

Young's Literal Translation

And He shaketh as a garden His tabernacle, He hath destroyed His appointed place, Jehovah hath forgotten in Zion the appointed time and sabbath, And despiseth, in the indignation of His anger, king and priest.

Bible in Basic English

And he has violently taken away his tent, as from a garden; he has made waste his meeting-place: the Lord has taken away the memory of feast and Sabbath in Zion, and in the passion of his wrath he is against king and priest.

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Cross references

“he hath violently”

Psalm 80:12 Psalm 89:40 Isaiah 5:5 Isaiah 63:18 Isaiah 64:11

Psalm 80:12 · BSB

Why have You broken down its walls, so that all who pass by pick its fruit?

Psalm 89:40 · BSB

You have broken down all his walls; You have reduced his strongholds to rubble.

Isaiah 5:5 · BSB

Now I will tell you what I am about to do to My vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it will be consumed; I will tear down its wall, and it will be trampled.

Isaiah 63:18 · BSB

For a short while Your people possessed Your holy place, but our enemies have trampled Your sanctuary.

Isaiah 64:11 · BSB

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.

“as if”

Isaiah 1:8

Isaiah 1:8 · BSB

And the Daughter of Zion is abandoned like a shelter in a vineyard, like a shack in a cucumber field, like a city besieged.

“caused”

Lamentations 1:4 Zephaniah 3:18

Lamentations 1:4 · BSB

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 3:18 · BSB

“I will gather those among you who grieve over the appointed feasts, so that you will no longer suffer reproach.

“the king”

Lamentations 4:16 Lamentations 4:20 Lamentations 5:12 Isaiah 43:28 Jeremiah 52:11–27 Ezekiel 17:18

Lamentations 4:16 · BSB

The presence of the LORD has scattered them; He regards them no more. The priests are shown no honor; the elders find no favor.

Lamentations 4:20 · BSB

The LORD’s anointed, the breath of our life, was captured in their pits. We had said of him, “Under his shadow we will live among the nations.”

Lamentations 5:12 · BSB

Princes have been hung up by their hands; elders receive no respect.

Isaiah 43:28 · BSB

So I will disgrace the princes of your sanctuary, and I will devote Jacob to destruction and Israel to reproach.”

Jeremiah 52:11–27 · BSB

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.

Ezekiel 17:18 · BSB

He despised the oath by breaking the covenant. Seeing that he gave his hand in pledge yet did all these things, he will not escape!’

Also

Isaiah 1:13

Isaiah 1:13 · BSB

Bring your worthless offerings no more; your incense is detestable to Me. New Moons, Sabbaths, and convocations— I cannot endure iniquity in a solemn assembly.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

5The Lord is like an enemy; He has swallowed up Israel. He has swallowed up all her palaces and destroyed her strongholds. He has multiplied mourning and lamentation for the Daughter of Judah.

7The Lord has rejected His altar; He has abandoned His sanctuary; He has delivered the walls of her palaces into the hand of the enemy. They have raised a shout in the house of the LORD as on the day of an appointed feast.

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