Lamentations 2:5

Lam 2:5 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.

Ver. 5. The Lord was an enemy. ] This the secure and foolish people would not be drawn to believe, till now they felt it; therefore it is so reiterated.

He hath swallowed up Israel, he hath destroyed, &c. ] This he had said before, Lam 2:2 but in cases of this kind people love to say the same things over and over. Redundanti copia exponit quae antea dixerat.

And hath increased … mourning and lamentation.] Heb., Lamentation and lamentation - q.d., this is all he hath left us. And this she speaketh mourning, but not murmuring: Non litem intendit Deo, sed confessionem edit.