Six ways to encounter God here
A passage is not only to be understood; it is to be lived with. Choose how you want to meet God in Lamentations 2:3, and Living Bread opens it right there.
Read itSit with the words themselves in The Word.Study itContext, cross-references, and questions in Bible Study.Be still in itLet it quiet you in the Sanctuary.Pray itTurn it into a prayer of your own.Hide it in your heartMemorize it, word by word.Encounter it togetherGather a few people to walk through it.
The web of Scripture around it
Where this passage echoes across the Bible, from the cross-reference graph, 12 connected Scriptures. Each one is a door to meet God there too.
- Psalms 74:11
Why withdrawest thou thy hand, even thy right hand? pluck it out of thy bosom.
- Psalms 75:10
All the horns of the wicked also will I cut off; but the horns of the righteous shall be exalted.
- Isaiah 42:25
Therefore he hath poured upon him the fury of his anger, and the strength of battle: and it hath set him on fire round about, yet he knew not; and it …
- Psalms 75:5
Lift not up your horn on high: speak not with a stiff neck.
- Jeremiah 48:25
The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken, saith the LORD.
- Psalms 89:46
How long, LORD? wilt thou hide thyself for ever? shall thy wrath burn like fire?
- Psalms 79:5
How long, LORD? wilt thou be angry for ever? shall thy jealousy burn like fire?
- Jeremiah 4:4
Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and take away the foreskins of your heart, ye men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest my fury come forth li…
- Luke 3:17
Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and will gather the wheat into his garner; but the chaff he will burn with fire unque…
- Jeremiah 21:14
But I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, saith the LORD: and I will kindle a fire in the forest thereof, and it shall devour all t…
- Deuteronomy 32:22
For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundatio…
- Job 16:15
I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust.
More to meet God in Lamentations
How it points to Christ
Every Scripture ultimately leads to Jesus. See how the whole Bible points to Him in Christ in all Scripture, then meet Him for yourself.