The Inner Meaning of the Prophets and Psalms #120
120. Internal Meaning of Lamentations, Chapter 2
1-9 Because all truths and goods have been destroyed, that church has been rejected by the Lord, and there is damnation. (3)
10-12 Grievous mourning of the church on account of the devastation. (3)
13-15 The church has no conjunction with the Lord, because it is wholly perverted, and hence rejected. (3)
Lamentations 2:18-22
18
Their heart cried to the Lord: wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night; Give yourself no respite; don't let the apple of your eye cease.
19
Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches; Pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord: Lift up your hands toward him for the life of your young children, that faint for hunger at the head of every street.
20
Look, Yahweh, and see to whom you have done thus! Shall the women eat their fruit, the children that are dandled in the hands? Shall the priest and the prophet be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?
21
The youth and the old man lie on the ground in the streets; My virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword: You have killed them in the day of your anger; you have slaughtered, [and] not pitied.
22
You have called, as in the day of a solemn assembly, my terrors on every side; There was none that escaped or remained in the day of Yahweh's anger: Those that I have dandled and brought up has my enemy consumed.
