Lamentations 1:10

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Summary

The adversary hath spread out his hand upon all her pleasant things: for she hath seen that the heathen entered into her sanctuary, whom thou didst command that they should not enter into thy congregation.

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Jeremiah 52:17

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Bible References

Spread

Jerusalem remembers her time of affliction and misery; all her valued belongings of days gone by, when her people fell into enemy hands, with no one to help her, and her enemies stared at her, mocking her downfall.

Therefore my people go into exile because they lack understanding; my honored men go hungry, and the crowd is parched with thirst.

"I'll give away your wealth and your treasures as plunder, for free, because of all your sins throughout your territory.

I'll turn over all the wealth of this city, all its possessions, all its valuables, and all the treasures of the kings of Judah right into the hands of their enemies, and they'll plunder them, capture them, and take them to Babylon.

The Chaldeans broke in pieces the bronze pillars that were in the LORD's Temple and the stands and the bronze sea that were in the LORD's Temple, and they carried all the bronze to Babylon.

Seen

Those who are opposing you roar where we were meeting with you; they unfurl their war banners as signs.

God, nations have invaded your land to desecrate your holy Temple, to destroy Jerusalem,

Your holy people took possession for a little while, but now our enemies have trampled down your sanctuary.

Your holy cities have become a desert; Zion has become like a desert, Jerusalem a desolation.

We have been put to shame because we have heard insults. Disgrace has covered our faces because foreigners have come into the Holy Places of the LORD's house.

He burned the LORD's Temple, the king's house, and all the houses in Jerusalem. He also burned every public building with fire.

I'll turn my face away from them so that they'll defile my treasured place. Robbers will enter and profane it!

"Desecrate my Temple," he told them, "and fill its courtyard with the dead!" So they went out and began striking down people throughout the city.

Whom

No Ammonite or Moabite may participate in the assembly of the LORD, and none of their descendants shall be admitted to the assembly of the LORD, to the tenth generation,

Later that day the book of Moses was read aloud so the people could hear it, and a written command was discovered therein permanently prohibiting the Ammonites and Moabites from coming into the congregation of God

You kept on bringing in foreigners, those who were uncircumcised in heart and flesh, to profane my sanctuary by being inside my Temple, and by doing so you've emptied my covenant, all the while offering my food the fat and the blood in addition to all of the other loathsome things you've done.

"So when you see the destructive desecration standing where it should not be (let the reader take note), then those who are in Judea must flee to the mountains.