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Lamentations 2:6
He has laid waste His tabernacle like a garden booth; He has destroyed His place of meeting. The LORD has made Zion forget her appointed feasts and Sabbaths. In His fierce anger He has despised both king and priest.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The author describes Yahweh's active judgment on Zion following Jerusalem's fall, detailing the destruction of its religious and political structures.
The words — The text employs וַיַּחְמֹס (va.yachmos, "he has treated violently") to describe the tabernacle's ruin and שִׁכַּח (shikkach, "he has caused to be forgotten") for the loss of appointed feasts and Sabbaths.
The thread — This pattern of abandoned worship and scattered leadership recurs in Lamentations 1:4 regarding deserted feasts, Zephaniah 3:18 concerning the gathering of those who grieve over appointed feasts, and Lamentations 4:16 where the Lord's presence scatters the people and dishonors priests.
Why it lands — The passage requires the reader to acknowledge that divine judgment directly dismantles communal worship and civil authority, removing any basis for ritual or political self-reliance.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden: he hath destroyed his places of the assembly: the Lord hath caused the solemn feasts and sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion, and hath despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest.
Cross-references
- Lamentations 1:4 The roads to Zion mourn, because no one comes to her appointed feasts. All her gates are deserted; her priests groan, her maidens grieve, and she herself is bitter with anguish.
- Zephaniah 3:18 “I will gather those among you who grieve over the appointed feasts, so that you will no longer suffer reproach.
- Lamentations 4:16 The presence of the LORD has scattered them; He regards them no more. The priests are shown no honor; the elders find no favor.
- Psalms 80:12 Why have You broken down its walls, so that all who pass by pick its fruit?
- Psalms 89:40 You have broken down all his walls; You have reduced his strongholds to rubble.
- Isaiah 1:8 And the Daughter of Zion is abandoned like a shelter in a vineyard, like a shack in a cucumber field, like a city besieged.
- Isaiah 1:13 Bring your worthless offerings no more; your incense is detestable to Me. New Moons, Sabbaths, and convocations—I cannot endure iniquity in a solemn assembly.
- Isaiah 5:5 Now I will tell you what I am about to do to My vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it will be consumed; I will tear down its wall, and it will be trampled.
- Isaiah 43:28 So I will disgrace the princes of your sanctuary, and I will devote Jacob to destruction and Israel to reproach.”
- Isaiah 63:18 For a short while Your people possessed Your holy place, but our enemies have trampled Your sanctuary.