The 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.
The Lord demolished every dwelling of Jacob without mercy, cast down all the fortified cities in His wrath, and profaned the kingdom and its princes. This profanation mattered most: the kingdom was consecrated to God, so when it fell, His name lay exposed to the reproach and slanders of the ungodly. The Jews' sins were so grave they earned this extreme sacrilege.
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The weight of these verses falls entirely on God's hand in the affliction. What cuts deepest is not that Jerusalem suffered, but that God made her suffer in His anger as an enemy. To those who prize His favor, His wrath is the true bitterness; His corrections in love wound most deeply because they come from Him.
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Commenting on Lamentations 2:1-9
The Lord swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob without pity, threw down the strongholds in His wrath, and polluted the kingdom and its princes. He did this without reluctance or compassion, provoked by their transgressions to such fury that He cast them away like filth to the dunghill and gave them into the hands of the unclean Gentiles.
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