Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

The Lord was as an enemy: he hath swallowed up Israel, he hath swallowed up all her palaces: he hath destroyed his strong holds, and hath increased in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.

Mourning

Bible References

Was

Lamentations 2:4
He hath bent his bow like an enemy; he stood with his right hand as an adversary, and hath slain all that was pleasant to the eye: in the tent of the daughter of Zion, he hath poured out his fury like fire.
Jeremiah 15:1
And Jehovah said unto me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, my soul would not turn toward this people. Send them out of my sight, and let them go forth.
Jeremiah 30:14
All thy lovers have forgotten thee; they seek thee not. For I have smitten thee with the stroke of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one, for the greatness of thine iniquity: thy sins are manifold.

He hath swallowed up israel

Lamentations 2:2
The Lord hath swallowed up all the dwellings of Jacob, and hath not spared; he hath thrown down in his wrath the strongholds of the daughter of Judah: he hath brought them down to the ground; he hath profaned the kingdom and the princes thereof.
2 Kings 25:9
and he burned the house of Jehovah, and the king's house, and all the houses of Jerusalem; and every great man's house he burned with fire.
2 Chronicles 36:16
But they mocked at the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until the fury of Jehovah rose against his people, and there was no remedy.
Jeremiah 52:13
and he burned the house of Jehovah, and the king's house, and all the houses of Jerusalem; and every great man's house he burned with fire.

Mourning

Ezekiel 2:10
And he spread it out before me; and it was written within and without; and there were written in it lamentations, and mourning, and woe.

General references

Isaiah 64:10
Thy holy cities are become a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
Lamentations 3:3
Surely against me hath he turned again and again his hand all the day.
Ezekiel 9:7
And he said unto them, Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain: go forth. And they went forth, and smote in the city.