The 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.
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Gill's Exposition
The Lord was as an enemy,.... Who formerly was on their side, their God and guardian, their protector and deliverer, but now against them; and a terrible thing it is to have God for an enemy, or even…
Barnes' Notes
Literally, אדני 'ădonāy has become “as an enemy.”
It is a very sad representation which is here made of the state of God's church, of Jacob and Israel, of Zion and Jerusalem; but the emphasis in these verses seems to be laid all along upon the hand…
Cambridge Bible
her palaces … his strong holds In "her" Jeremiah was thinking of the city, in "his" of the people at large; hence the change in the gender of the pronouns.
mourning and lamentation groaning and…
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