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The Lord is become as an enemy, he has swallowed up Israel; He has swallowed up all her palaces, he has destroyed his strongholds; He has multiplied in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.
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God, Not Man, is the Judge
Commentators like John Calvin stress that the verse repeatedly calls God an "enemy" because the people were blind to His hand in their suffering, blaming only the Chaldeans. The prophet's goal was to force them to recognize that their ultimate adversary was God Himself, acting in judgment, in order to awaken them from their spiritual stupor.
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Lamentations
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Literally, אדני 'ădonāy has become “as an enemy.”
19th Century
Anglican
Her palaces: ... his strong holds ... —The change of gender is remarkable, probably rising from the fact that the writer …
16th Century
Protestant
These words might seem superfluous, since the Prophet has often repeated that God had become an enemy to his own people; but we shall later see tha…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
The Lord was as an enemy Who formerly was on their side, their God and guardian, their protector and deliverer, but …
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 he weeps over the destruction of the buildings used for defense, and he addresses this in three ways.
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