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Lamentations 2:3 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 3. 3He 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.
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Role in This Section
This verse depicts Israel's horn cut off, protective power withdrawn, and fire consuming Jacob.
Read It With
- Lamentations 2:1-5
Read Lamentations 2:3 with 2:1-5. This verse depicts Israel's horn cut off, protective power withdrawn, and fire consuming Jacob. The complete unit establishes this movement: The poet portrays the Lord's anger overturning Zion's beauty, defenses, leaders, and people until the shocking comparison is spoken twice: the Lord has acted as or like an enemy and multiplied mourning.
Why It Needs Context
This verse depicts Israel's horn cut off, protective power withdrawn, and fire consuming Jacob. Its contribution depends on Lamentations 2:1-5; extracting independent teaching would detach one poetic line from the alphabet stanza and complete lament movement.
Continue in Context
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Read Lamentations 2:1-5 — The Lord Is Portrayed as an EnemySources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? strong
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact displayed Scripture, paragraph markers, supplied-word markup, and canonical verse coverage.
Exact location: Lamentations 2:1-5, repository-pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Lamentations
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording, morphology, alphabet sequence, person and number, repeated vocabulary, and translation questions.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Lam.xml, OSIS Lam.2.1-Lam.2.5
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