Lamentations 2:3

KJV1611 – Modern English

He has cut off in His fierce anger all the strength of Israel: He has drawn back His right hand from before the enemy, and He burned against Jacob like a flaming fire, which devours all around.

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Other Translations

  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    In his fierce anger, he has cut off every horn of Israel. He has withdrawn his right hand from the presence of the enemy and burned in Jacob like a blazing fire that engulfs everything around it.

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    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 fming fire, which devoureth round about.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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

  • 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.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    In the wrath of his indignacion he hath broken all the horne of Israel: he hath withdrawe his right honde from the enemie: yee a flame of fyre is kyndled in Iacob, & hath consumed vp all rounde aboute.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    Hee hath cut off in his fierce wrath all the horne of Israel: he hath drawen backe his right hand from before the enemie, & there was kindled in Iaakob like a flame of fire, which deuoured rounde about.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    In the wrath of his indignation he hath broken all the horne of Israel, he hath withdrawen his right hande from the enemie, yea a flambe of fire is kindled in Iacob, and hath consumed vp all rounde about.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    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.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    He has cut off in fierce anger all the horn of Israel; He has drawn back his right hand from before the enemy: He has burned up Jacob like a flaming fire, which devours round about.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    He hath cut off in the heat of anger every horn of Israel, He hath turned backward His right hand From the face of the enemy, And He burneth against Jacob as a flaming fire, It hath devoured round about.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

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

  • American Standard Version (1901)

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

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    In his burning wrath every horn of Israel has been cut off; his right hand has been turned back before the attacker: he has put a fire in Jacob, causing destruction round about.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    He has cut off in fierce anger all the horn of Israel; He has drawn back his right hand from before the enemy: He has burned up Jacob like a flaming fire, which devours all around.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    ג(Gimel) In fierce anger he destroyed the whole army of Israel. He withdrew his right hand as the enemy attacked. He was like a raging fire in the land of Jacob; it consumed everything around it.

Referenced Verses

  • Ps 74:11 : 11 Why do You withdraw Your hand, even Your right hand? Pluck it out of Your bosom.
  • Ps 75:5 : 5 Do not lift your horn on high; do not speak with a stiff neck.
  • Ps 75:10 : 10 All the horns of the wicked I will also cut off, but the horns of the righteous shall be exalted.
  • Isa 42:25 : 25 Therefore he has poured upon him the fury of his anger, and the strength of battle: and it set him on fire all around, yet he did not know; 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, says the LORD.
  • Ps 79:5 : 5 How long, LORD? Will You be angry forever? Shall Your jealousy burn like fire?
  • Ps 89:46 : 46 How long, LORD? Will you hide yourself forever? Shall your wrath burn like fire?
  • Ps 132:17 : 17 There I will make the horn of David to bud; I have ordained a lamp for My 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 my anger, and shall burn to 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 sewn 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 his horn shall be exalted.
  • Mal 4:1 : 1 For behold, the day comes that shall burn like an oven, and all the proud, yes, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble; and the day that comes shall burn them up, says the LORD of hosts, so that it will leave them neither root nor branch.
  • Luke 1:69 : 69 And has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of His servant David,
  • Luke 3:17 : 17 Whose winnowing fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly purge his threshing floor, and will gather the wheat into his barn; but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.
  • Jer 4:4 : 4 Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and take away the foreskins of your heart, you men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest my fury come forth like fire, and burn so that no one can quench it, because of the evil of your deeds.
  • Jer 7:20 : 20 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD; Behold, my anger and my fury will 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 will burn, and will not be quenched.
  • Jer 21:4-5 : 4 Thus says the LORD God of Israel: Behold, I will turn back the weapons of war that are in your hands, with which you fight against the king of Babylon, and against the Chaldeans who besiege you outside the walls, and I will gather 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 deeds, says the LORD: and I will kindle a fire in its forest, and it shall devour all things around it.

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