Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

The Lord hath swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and hath not pitied: he hath thrown down in his wrath the strong holds of the daughter of Judah; he hath brought them down to the ground: he hath polluted the kingdom and the princes thereof.

Brought them down to

Bible References

He hath thrown

Lamentations 2:5

The Lord has become like an enemy;
He has swallowed up Israel.
He has swallowed up all its palaces;
He has destroyed its strongholds
And multiplied in the Daughter of Judah
Mourning and lamentation (expressions of grief).
Jeremiah 5:10

“Go up through the rows of Jerusalem’s vineyards and destroy [them],
But do not completely destroy everything.
Strip away her branches and the tendrils [of her vines],
For they are not the Lord’s.
Micah 5:11

“I will cut off the cities of your land
And tear down all your fortifications.
Malachi 1:4
Though [impoverished] Edom says, “We have been beaten down, but we will return and build up the ruins.” Thus says the Lord of hosts, “They may build, but I will tear down; and men will call them the Wicked Territory, the people against whom the Lord is indignant forever.”
2 Corinthians 10:4
The weapons of our warfare are not physical [weapons of flesh and blood]. Our weapons are divinely powerful for the destruction of fortresses.

Brought them down to

Isaiah 25:12

The high fortifications of your walls He will bring down,
Lay low, and cast to the ground, to the dust.
Isaiah 26:5

“For He has thrown down the [arrogant] ones who dwell on high, the lofty and inaccessible city;
He lays it low, He lays it low to the ground, He hurls it to the dust.
Psalm 89:39

You have spurned and repudiated the covenant with Your servant;
You have profaned his crown [by casting it] in the dust.

Polluted

Psalm 89:39

You have spurned and repudiated the covenant with Your servant;
You have profaned his crown [by casting it] in the dust.
Isaiah 23:9

The Lord of hosts has planned it, to defile the pride of all beauty,
To bring into contempt and humiliation all the honored of the earth.
Isaiah 47:6

“I was angry with My people,
I profaned [Judah] My inheritance
And gave them into your hand [Babylon].
You showed them no mercy;
You made your yoke very heavy on the aged.