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 has bent his bow like an enemy, he has stood with his right hand as an adversary, Has killed all that were pleasant to the eye: In the tent of the daughter of Zion he has poured out his wrath like fire.
Jeremiah 15:1
Then Yahweh said to me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind would not be toward this people: cast them out of my sight, and let them go forth.
Jeremiah 30:14
All your lovers have forgotten you; they don't seek you: for I have wounded you with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one, for the greatness of your iniquity, because your sins were increased.

He hath swallowed up israel

Lamentations 2:2
The Lord has swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and has not pitied: He has thrown down in his wrath the strongholds of the daughter of Judah; He has brought them down to the ground; he has profaned the kingdom and its princes.
2 Kings 25:9
He burnt the house of Yahweh, and the king's house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, burnt he with fire.
2 Chronicles 36:16
but they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until the wrath of Yahweh arose against his people, until there was no remedy.
Jeremiah 52:13
and he burned the house of Yahweh, and the king's house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, burned he with fire.

Mourning

Ezekiel 2:10
He spread it before me: and it was written within and without; and there were written therein lamentations, and mourning, and woe.

General references

Isaiah 64:10
Your holy cities are become a wilderness, Zion is become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
Lamentations 3:3
Surely against me he turns his hand again and again all the day.
Ezekiel 9:7
He said to them, Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain. Go forth! They went forth, and struck in the city.