Lamentations 2:3

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

He hath cut off in his fierce anger all the horn of Israel: he hath drawn back his right hand from before the enemy, and he burned against Jacob like a flaming fire, which devoureth round about.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

גָּדַ֣ע בָּֽחֳרִי אַ֗ף כֹּ֚ל קֶ֣רֶן יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל הֵשִׁ֥יב אָח֛וֹר יְמִינ֖וֹ מִפְּנֵ֣י אוֹיֵ֑ב וַיִּבְעַ֤ר בְּיַעֲקֹב֙ כְּאֵ֣שׁ לֶֽהָבָ֔ה אָכְלָ֖ה סָבִֽיב׃

Transliteration

gāḏaʿ in-ḥorî ʾap̄ all qeren yiśrāʾēl hēšîḇ ʾāḥôr yəmînô from-pənê ʾôyēḇ and-wayyiḇʿar in-yaʿăqōḇ like-ʾēš lehāḇâ ʾāḵlâ sāḇîḇ

Grammar Details

*gāḏaʿ*: qal perfect, 3rd masculine singular - he has cut off/hewn down
*bāḥorî-ʾap̄*: preposition + noun, masculine singular construct + noun - in fierce anger
*kol*: noun, masculine singular construct - all/every
*qeren*: noun, feminine singular construct - horn/power of
*yiśrāʾēl*: proper noun - Israel
*hēšîḇ*: hiphil perfect, 3rd masculine singular - he has drawn back/withdrawn
*ʾāḥôr*: adverb - backward
*yəmînô*: noun, feminine singular + 3rd masculine singular suffix - his right hand
*mippənê*: preposition + noun, masculine plural construct - from before/from the face of
*ʾôyēḇ*: qal participle, masculine singular - enemy
*wayyiḇʿar*: conjunction + qal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - and he has burned
*bəyaʿăqōḇ*: preposition + proper noun - in Jacob
*kəʾēš*: preposition + noun, feminine singular - like fire
*lehāḇâ*: noun, feminine singular - flame
*ʾāḵlâ*: qal perfect, 3rd feminine singular - it has devoured
*sāḇîḇ*: adverb - around/surrounding

Word Meanings

*gāḏaʿ*: cut off/cut down/hew down/break
*ḥorî-ʾap̄*: burning anger/fierce anger/heat of anger
*qeren*: horn/power/strength/might
*hēšîḇ*: turn back/withdraw/draw back/return
*yəmînô*: right hand/right side/south
*wayyiḇʿar*: burn/consume/kindle/be kindled
*lehāḇâ*: flame/blaze/flashing blade
*ʾāḵlâ*: devour/consume/eat

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Referenced Verses

Ps 74:11 : 11 Why withdrawest{H8686)} thou thy hand, even thy right hand? pluck{H8761)} it out of thy bosom {H8675)}.
Ps 75:5 : 5 Lift not up{H8686)} your horn on high: speak{H8762)} not with a stiff neck.
Ps 75:10 : 10 All the horns of the wicked also will I cut off{H8762)}; but the horns of the righteous shall be exalted{H8783)}.
Isa 42:25 : 25 Therefore he hath poured upon him the fury of his anger, and the strength of battle: and it hath set him on fire round about, yet he knew not; and it burned him, yet he laid it not to heart.
Jer 48:25 : 25 The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken, saith the LORD.
Ps 79:5 : 5 How long, LORD? wilt thou be angry{H8799)} for ever? shall thy jealousy burn{H8799)} like fire?
Ps 89:46 : 46 How long, LORD? wilt thou hide{H8735)} thyself for ever? shall thy wrath burn{H8799)} like fire?
Ps 132:17 : 17 There will I make the horn of David to bud: I have ordained a lamp for mine anointed.
Isa 1:31 : 31 And the strong shall be as tow, and the maker of it as a spark, and they shall both burn together, and none shall quench them.
Deut 32:22 : 22 For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.
Job 16:15 : 15 I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust.
Ps 89:24 : 24 But my faithfulness and my mercy shall be with him: and in my name shall his horn be exalted{H8799)}.
Mal 4:1 : 1 For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
Luke 1:69 : 69 And hath raised up an horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David;
Luke 3:17 : 17 Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and will gather the wheat into his garner; but the chaff he will burn with fire unquenchable.
Jer 4:4 : 4 Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and take away the foreskins of your heart, ye men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest my fury come forth like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
Jer 7:20 : 20 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, mine anger and my fury shall be poured out upon this place, upon man, and upon beast, and upon the trees of the field, and upon the fruit of the ground; and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched.
Jer 21:4-5 : 4 Thus saith the LORD God of Israel; Behold, I will turn back the weapons of war that are in your hands, wherewith ye fight against the king of Babylon, and against the Chaldeans, which besiege you without the walls, and I will assemble them into the midst of this city. 5 And I myself will fight against you with an outstretched hand and with a strong arm, even in anger, and in fury, and in great wrath.
Jer 21:14 : 14 But I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, saith the LORD: and I will kindle a fire in the forest thereof, and it shall devour all things round about it.

Similar Verses (AI)

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Lam 2:4-8
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84%
4He hath bent his bow like an enemy: he stood with his right hand as an adversary, and slew all that were pleasant to the eye in the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion: he poured out his fury like fire.
5The Lord was as an enemy: he hath swallowed up Israel, he hath swallowed up all her palaces: he hath destroyed his strong holds, and hath increased in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.
6And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden: he hath destroyed his places of the assembly: the LORD hath caused the solemn feasts and sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion, and hath despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest.
7The Lord hath cast off his altar, he hath abhorred his sanctuary, he hath given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces; they have made a noise in the house of the LORD, as in the day of a solemn feast.
8The LORD hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion: he hath stretched out a line, he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying: therefore he made the rampart and the wall to lament; they languished together.
Lam 2:1-2
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1How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger, and cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel, and remembered not his footstool in the day of his anger!
2The Lord hath swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and hath not pitied: he hath thrown down in his wrath the strong holds of the daughter of Judah; he hath brought them down to the ground: he hath polluted the kingdom and the princes thereof.
Isa 42:25
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25Therefore he hath poured upon him the fury of his anger, and the strength of battle: and it hath set him on fire round about, yet he knew not; and it burned him, yet he laid it not to heart.
Lam 4:11
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11The LORD hath accomplished his fury; he hath poured out his fierce anger, and hath kindled a fire in Zion, and it hath devoured the foundations thereof.
Ps 78:21
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21Therefore the LORD heard{H8804)} this, and was wroth{H8691)}: so a fire was kindled{H8738)} against Jacob, and anger also came up{H8804)} against Israel;
Nah 2:2
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2For the LORD hath turned away the excellency of Jacob, as the excellency of Israel: for the emptiers have emptied them out, and marred their vine branches.
Isa 5:25
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25Therefore is the anger of the LORD kindled against his people, and he hath stretched forth his hand against them, and hath smitten them: and the hills did tremble, and their carcases were torn in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
Isa 10:16-18
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16Therefore shall the Lord, the Lord of hosts, send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory he shall kindle a burning like the burning of a fire.
17And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame: and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day;
18And shall consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body: and they shall be as when a standardbearer fainteth.
Lam 2:17
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17The LORD hath done that which he had devised; he hath fulfilled his word that he had commanded in the days of old: he hath thrown down, and hath not pitied: and he hath caused thine enemy to rejoice over thee, he hath set up the horn of thine adversaries.
Isa 34:2
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2For the indignation of the LORD is upon all nations, and his fury upon all their armies: he hath utterly destroyed them, he hath delivered them to the slaughter.
Jer 10:25
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25Pour out thy fury upon the heathen that know thee not, and upon the families that call not on thy name: for they have eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and have made his habitation desolate.
Jer 25:37-38
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37And the peaceable habitations are cut down because of the fierce anger of the LORD.
38He hath forsaken his covert, as the lion: for their land is desolate because of the fierceness of the oppressor, and because of his fierce anger.
Isa 9:12
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12The Syrians before, and the Philistines behind; and they shall devour Israel with open mouth. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
Obad 1:18
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18And the house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble, and they shall kindle in them, and devour them; and there shall not be any remaining of the house of Esau; for the LORD hath spoken it.
Isa 9:18-19
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18For wickedness burneth as the fire: it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke.
19Through the wrath of the LORD of hosts is the land darkened, and the people shall be as the fuel of the fire: no man shall spare his brother.
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9Thou shalt make them as a fiery oven in the time of thine anger: the LORD shall swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire shall devour them.
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9Thine hand shall be lifted up upon thine adversaries, and all thine enemies shall be cut off.
Ps 79:7
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7For they have devoured{H8804)} Jacob, and laid waste{H8689)} his dwelling place.
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14And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel, and he delivered them into the hands of spoilers that spoiled them, and he sold them into the hands of their enemies round about, so that they could not any longer stand before their enemies.
Ezek 22:31
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31Therefore have I poured out mine indignation upon them; I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath: their own way have I recompensed upon their heads, saith the Lord GOD.
Isa 30:30
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30And the LORD shall cause his glorious voice to be heard, and shall shew the lighting down of his arm, with the indignation of his anger, and with the flame of a devouring fire, with scattering, and tempest, and hailstones.
Ezek 21:31
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31And I will pour out mine indignation upon thee, I will blow against thee in the fire of my wrath, and deliver thee into the hand of brutish men, and skilful to destroy.
Deut 32:22
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22For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.
Ps 97:3
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3A fire goeth before him, and burneth up his enemies round about.
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Isa 27:11
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11When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come, and set them on fire: for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will shew them no favour.
Deut 29:27-28
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72%
27And the anger of the LORD was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curses that are written in this book:
28And the LORD rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as it is this day.
Isa 31:9
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9And he shall pass over to his strong hold for fear, and his princes shall be afraid of the ensign, saith the LORD, whose fire is in Zion, and his furnace in Jerusalem.
Gen 49:7
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7Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.
1 Kgs 14:15
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15For the LORD shall smite Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water, and he shall root up Israel out of this good land, which he gave to their fathers, and shall scatter them beyond the river, because they have made their groves, provoking the LORD to anger.
Joel 2:3
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3A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
Ezek 36:5
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