What Does Lamentations 2:6 Mean in the King James?
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.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The verse treats sacred space and sacred time as one system: the gathering place is destroyed, and the appointed rhythms are forgotten.
THE MEANING
You are looking at devastation that reaches across sacred space and sacred time: the sanctuary and meeting-place are ruined, and the feast days and sabbaths disappear from memory. The verse leaves no protective exemption around king or priest; the structures, rhythms, and offices that organize worship stand under God’s anger.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The belief that a sacred building, calendar, or office makes itself untouchable is undone here: each is named among what can be destroyed or rejected under divine anger.
THE ROOT
מוֹעֵד
mo'ed
GROWS FROM
יעד
y-ʿ-d
To appoint, designate, or set a meeting.
“places of the assembly / solemn feasts” in this verse is mo'ed. The same Hebrew word, מוֹעֵד (mo’ed), names both the assembly place and the solemn feast. These are not separate losses: the appointed meeting is severed in both its location and its calendar.
ALSO GROWS
ya'ad: To appoint or designate.
יָעַד
The verb reveals the act beneath the appointed time: setting a meeting in place.
ʿedah: Congregation or assembly.
עֵדָה
This related word names the people gathered, linking the appointed meeting to the community it brings together.
שַׁבָּת
shabbat
GROWS FROM
שבת
sh-b-t
To cease, stop, or desist.
“sabbaths” in this verse is shabbat. The sabbath carries cessation in its name. When the verse says it is forgotten, even the recurring act of stopping has slipped from shared memory.
ALSO GROWS
shavat: To cease or stop.
שָׁבַת
The verb makes the action encoded in the Sabbath name visible: a stopping.
shabbaton: A sabbath observance or solemn rest.
שַׁבָּתוֹן
This form keeps the same root in a recurring observance, sharpening what is lost when the sabbath is forgotten.
THE PATTERN
Shared worship takes shape through appointed times and gathered places, so their disruption reaches into the community’s common life.
Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, Concerning the feasts of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, even these are my feasts.And they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart,I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her feast days, her new moons, and her sabbaths, and all her solemn feasts.THE THREAD
Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, Concerning the feasts of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, even these are my feasts.Leviticus and Lamentations share מוֹעֵד (mo’ed, an appointed time or meeting) for the feasts; Lamentations also uses it for the assembly place. The shared word reveals one fracture: the appointed meeting disappears from both where people gather and when they gather.
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