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Lamentations 2:22
You summoned my terrors on every side, as for the day of an appointed feast. In the day of the LORD’s anger no one escaped or survived; my enemy has destroyed those I nurtured and reared.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The speaker addresses God immediately after describing Jerusalem’s slaughter, framing the city’s devastation as a direct response to divine wrath.
The words — תִּקְרָא (tik.Ra') translates literally as "you have summoned," and מוֹעֵד (mo.'Ed) means "an appointed feast," both describing how the coming judgment is portrayed as a convened assembly of destruction.
The thread — The motif of surrounding terror appears in Psalms 31:13 and Jeremiah 6:25, while Isaiah 24:17 pairs terror with a pit and snare rather than repeating the surrounding threat.
Why it lands — The text states that divine anger leaves no escape and that human nurture cannot withstand it, demanding recognition that judgment operates beyond human control or protection.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Thou hast called as in a solemn day my terrors round about, so that in the day of the Lord’s anger none escaped nor remained: those that I have swaddled and brought up hath mine enemy consumed.
Cross-references
- Psalms 31:13 For I hear the slander of many; there is terror on every side. They conspire against me and plot to take my life.
- Jeremiah 6:25 Do not go out to the fields; do not walk the road. For the enemy has a sword; terror is on every side.
- Isaiah 24:17 Terror and pit and snare await you, O dweller of the earth.
- Jeremiah 16:2 “You must not marry or have sons or daughters in this place.”
- Jeremiah 20:3 The next day, when Pashhur released Jeremiah from the stocks, Jeremiah said to him, “The LORD does not call you Pashhur, but Magor-missabib.
- Deuteronomy 28:18 The fruit of your womb will be cursed, as well as the produce of your land, the calves of your herds, and the lambs of your flocks.
- Jeremiah 46:5 Why am I seeing this? They are terrified, they are retreating; their warriors are defeated, they flee in haste without looking back; terror is on every side!” declares the LORD.
- Hosea 9:12 Even if they raise their children, I will bereave them of each one. Yes, woe be to them when I turn away from them!
- Amos 9:1 I saw the Lord standing beside the altar, and He said: “Strike the tops of the pillars so that the thresholds shake. Topple them on the heads of all the people, and I will kill the rest with the sword. None of those who flee will get away; none of the fugitives will escape.
- Luke 23:29 Look, the days are coming when people will say, ‘Blessed are the barren women, the wombs that never bore, and breasts that never nursed!’