Lamentations 2:4

⁴דָּרַךְ קַשְׁתּוֹ כְּאוֹיֵב, נִצָּב יְמִינוֹ כְּצָר, וַיַּהֲרֹג, כֹּל מַחֲמַדֵּי־עָיִן; בְּאֹהֶל בַּת־צִיּוֹן, שָׁפַךְ כָּאֵשׁ חֲמָתוֹ׃ ס

Lamentations 2 shifts from the communal grief of chapter 1 to a searing, almost unbearable account of God's own hand in Jerusalem's destruction. The poet describes the Lord as an enemy who has swallowed up Israel without mercy, dismantling every symbol of security—the temple, the