5The Lord has become like an enemy; he has swallowed up Israel; he has swallowed up all its palaces; he has laid in ruins its strongholds, and he has multiplied in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.
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
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