17But it is the Lord who did just as he planned. He has fulfilled the promises of disaster he made long ago. He has destroyed Jerusalem without mercy. He has caused her enemies to gloat over her and has given them power over her.
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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