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Lamentations 2:6

King James Version (KJV)

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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.

Lamentations 2:6 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Lamentations 2:6

Theological / Devotional

Tabernacle. Reference is apparently to the swiftness with which the Temple was destroyed.

To be forgotten. God’s judgments on Judah — the destruction of the Temple and deportation of the population — had resulted in the discontinuance of Sabbath and feast-day services in the Temple (see ch. 1:4). The prophet is looking at conditions as they exist from the standpoint of the ruined city and does not mean to imply that God had purposed a cessation of Sabbath observance by His people (see Jer. 17:27; Zeph. 3:18).

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