Lamentations 2:7

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

The Lord hath cast off his altar, he hath abhorred his sanctuary, he hath given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces; they have made a noise in the house of the LORD, as in the day of a solemn feast.

Cast off

Given up

Amos 2:5

They have

Psalm 72:4

Psalm 74:3

Ezekiel 7:21

General references

Isaiah 64:10

Lamentations 3:3

Ezekiel 9:7

Bible References

Cast off

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

And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the aroma of your sweet odors.

When God heard this, he was full of anger, and greatly abhorred Israel:

Your holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.

But go you now unto my place which was in Shiloh, where I set my name at the first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel.

Then will I make this house like Shiloh, and will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.

And burned the house of the LORD, and the king's house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, and all the houses of the great men, burned he with fire:

As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty: but they made the images of their abominations and of their detestable things from it: therefore have I set it far from them.

Speak unto the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord GOD; Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the pride of your strength, the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul pities; and your sons and your daughters whom you have left behind shall fall by the sword.

Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps of ruins, and the mountain of the house like the high places of the forest.

And Jesus said unto them, See you not all these things? verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.

And set up false witnesses, who said, This man ceases not to speak blasphemous words against this holy place, and the law:

Given up

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

And they burnt the house of God, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem, and burned all its palaces with fire, and destroyed all its costly possessions.

And the Chaldeans, that fight against this city, shall come and set fire to this city, and burn it with the houses, upon whose roofs they have offered incense unto Baal, and poured out drink offerings unto other gods, to provoke me to anger.

Call unto me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you know not.

And the Chaldeans burned the king's house, and the houses of the people, with fire, and broke down the walls of Jerusalem.

Therefore I will bring the worst of the nations, and they shall possess their houses: I will also make the pomp of the strong to cease; and their holy places shall be defiled.

But I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem.

They have

He shall judge the poor of the people, he shall save the children of the needy, and shall break in pieces the oppressor.

Lift up your feet unto the perpetual desolations; even all that the enemy has done wickedly in the sanctuary.

And I will give it into the hands of the strangers for plunder, and to the wicked of the earth for spoil; and they shall pollute it.

General references

Your holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.

Surely against me has he turned; he turns his hand against me all the day.

And he said unto them, Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain: go you forth. And they went forth, and killed in the city.