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He has bent his bow like an enemy, he has stood with his right hand as an adversary, Has killed all that were pleasant to the eye: In the tent of the daughter of Zion he has poured out his wrath like fire.
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God as the Attacker
Commentators highlight the shocking reversal of imagery in this verse. God, who once used His powerful 'right hand' to protect and save Israel, is now depicted as standing 'like an enemy,' bending a bow against them. This stark picture is meant to convey the severity of the judgment and how completely God has turned against His people's sin.
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Lamentations
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18th Century
Presbyterian
He stood with his right hand ... - that is, that right hand so often stretched out to help now grasped a weapon ready for Judah’s d…
19th Century
Anglican
He stood with his right hand ... —The point of the phrase is that the “right hand,” the natural symbol of divine power, which had …
16th Century
Protestant
He now employs another metaphor: God, who was accustomed to defend His people, now took up arms against them. For, in stating a part for the whole,…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
He has bent his bow like an enemy God sometimes appears as if he was an enemy to his people, when he is not, by his condu…
A sad representation is made here of the state of God's church, of Jacob and Israel; but the focus seems mostly to be on the hand of the Lord in th…
13th Century
Catholic
Here the prophet weeps over the destruction of the things that were for the people's use.
First, he weeps over what relates to beauty.
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