Lamentations 2:17

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

The LORD hath done that which he had devised; he hath fulfilled his word that he had commanded in the days of old: he hath thrown down, and hath not pitied: and he hath caused thine enemy to rejoice over thee, he hath set up the horn of thine adversaries.

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He hath thrown

Ezekiel 9:10

He hath caused

Deuteronomy 28:43

Psalm 38:16

Psalm 89:42

General references

Ezekiel 20:48

Bible References

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LORD has purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion. He has stretched out the line. He has not withdrawn his hand from destroying. And he has made the rampart and wall to lament, they languish together.

But if ye will not hearken to me, and will not do all these commandments,

But it shall come to pass, if thou will not hearken to the voice of LORD thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day, that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee:

Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turns away this day from LORD our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations. Lest there should be among you a root that bears gall and wormwood,

And LORD said to Moses, Behold, thou shall sleep with thy fathers. And this people will rise up, and play the harlot after the strange gods of the land where they go to be among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant whic

But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked. Thou have grown fat. Thou have grown thick. Thou have become sleek. Then he forsook God who made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.

Now therefore, speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus says LORD: Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a device against you. Return ye now everyone from his evil way, and amend your ways

Therefore thus says LORD: Behold, I devise an evil against this family, from which ye shall not remove your necks, nor shall ye walk haughtily, for it is an evil time.

He hath thrown

How LORD has covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger! He has cast down the beauty of Israel from heaven to the earth, and has not remembered his footstool in the day of his anger.

Therefore, as I live, says lord LORD, surely, because thou have defiled my sanctuary with all thy detestable things, and with all thine abominations, therefore I also will diminish [thee], nor shall my eye spare. And I also will ha

Now I will shortly pour out my wrath upon thee, and accomplish my anger against thee, and will judge thee according to thy ways. And I will bring upon thee all thine abominations.

Therefore I will also deal in wrath. My eye shall not spare, nor will I have pity. And though they cry in my ears with a loud voice, yet I will not hear them.

And as for me also, my eye shall not spare, nor will I have pity, but I will bring their way upon their head.

He hath caused

The sojourner who is in the midst of thee shall mount up above thee higher and higher, and thou shall come down lower and lower.

For I said, Lest they rejoice over me. When my foot slips, they magnify themselves against me.

Thou have exalted the right hand of his adversaries. Thou have made all his enemies to rejoice.

General references

But if ye will not hearken to me, and will not do all these commandments,

even all the nations shall say, Why has LORD done thus to this land? What is the meaning of the heat of this great anger?

Thou have exalted the right hand of his adversaries. Thou have made all his enemies to rejoice.

And many nations shall pass by this city, and they shall say each man to his neighbor, Why has LORD done thus to this great city?

And all flesh shall see that I, LORD, have kindled it. It shall not be quenched.