Lamentations / Question
Lamentations says the Lord caused “feast and Sabbath to be forgotten in Zion” and spurned king and priest in indignation. It also says the Lord has scorned his altar and disowned his sanctuary (Lamentations 2:6–7).
In Lamentations 2:1–7, the speaker stares in shock at how the Lord himself has acted against Zion and Judah. Images pile up: a dark cloud, beauty thrown down, homes and fortresses swallowed, power cut off, fire devouring, and God taking the posture of an enemy archer. This unit sits inside the book’s second lament, which focuses less on describing misery from the ground and more on naming the Lord as the main agent behind Jerusalem’s ruin.
Lamentations 2:1–7 speaks in stunned grief about Jerusalem’s collapse, but it frames the catastrophe as the Lord’s own action, not merely Babylon’s success. The poem stacks strong verbs (covered, cast down, swallowed, threw down, cut off, burned, rejected) to stress reversal: the God who once protected Zion now acts against it.
A careful answer keeps the immediate passage, the book's argument, and the whole-Bible storyline together, so the question is answered in context instead of as a detached idea.
Start with Lamentations 2:6-7, then read the surrounding section so the answer stays connected to the passage's flow.
6He has violently taken away his tent, as if it were of a garden; he has destroyed his place of assembly: Yahweh has caused solemn assembly and Sabbath to be forgotten in Zion, Has despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest.
7The Lord has cast off his altar, he has abhorred his sanctuary; He has given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces: They have made a noise in the house of Yahweh, as in the day of a solemn assembly.