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

{Aleph} Alas, how hath the LORD darkened the daughter of Zion so sore in his wrath? As for the honour of Israel, he hath casten it down from heaven: How happeneth it, that he remembered not his own foot stool when he was angry?

And I will make your cities desolate, and bring your sanctuaries unto nought, and will not smell the savours of your sweet odours.

When God heard this, he was wroth, and took sore displeasure at Israel,

The cities of thy Sanctuary lie waste: Zion is a wilderness, and Jerusalem a desert.

Go to my place in Shiloh, whereunto I gave my name afore time, and look well what I did to the same place for the wickedness of my people of Israel.

then will I do to this house, as I did unto Shiloh, and will make this city to be abhorred of all the people of the earth.'"

and burnt up the house of the LORD. He burnt up also the king's palace, all the houses, and all the gorgeous buildings in Jerusalem.

because they made thereof not only costly Jewels for their pomp and pride, but also abominable images and Idols. For this cause will I make them to be abhorred.

'Tell the house of Israel, thus sayeth the LORD God: Behold, I will suspend my sanctuary: even the glory of your power, that pleasure of your eyes, and the thing that ye love: your sons and daughters whom ye have left, shall fall through the sword.

Therefore shall Zion, for your sakes, be plowed like a field: Jerusalem shall become a heap of stones, and the hill of the temple shall be turned to a high wood.

Jesus said unto them, "See ye not all these things? Verily I say unto you, There shall not be here left one stone upon another, that shall not be cast down."

and brought forth false witnesses which said, "This man ceaseth not to speak blasphemous words against this holy place and the law,

Given up

{He} The LORD is become like as it were an enemy: he hath cast down Israel and all his places. Yea, all his strongholds hath he destroyed, and filled the daughter of Judah with much sorrow and heaviness.

And they burnt the house of God and brake down the walls of Jerusalem and burnt all the palaces thereof with fire with all the goodly stuff thereof, and marred it.

For the Chaldeans shall come, and win this city, and set fire upon it, and burn it: with the gorgeous houses in whose parlors they have made sacrifice unto Baal, and poured drink offerings unto strange gods, to provoke me unto wrath.

Thou hast cried unto me, and I have heard thee: I have showed great and high things, which were unknown unto you."

Moreover, the Chaldeans burnt up the king's palace, with the other houses of the people, and brake down the walls of Jerusalem.

Wherefore, I will bring the most cruel tyrants from among the Heathen to take their houses in possession. I will make the pomp of the proud to cease, and they shall take in their Sanctuary.

Therefore will I send a fire into Judah, which shall consume the palaces of Jerusalem.'

They have

He shall keep the simple folk by their right, defend the children of the poor, and punish the wrongdoer.

Lift up thy feet, that thou mayest utterly destroy every enemy which hath done evil in thy sanctuary.

Moreover, I will give it into the hands of the strangers to be spoiled: and to the wicked for to be robbed, and they shall destroy it.

General references

The cities of thy Sanctuary lie waste: Zion is a wilderness, and Jerusalem a desert.

Against me only he turneth his hand, and layeth it ever upon me.

for he had said unto them, "When ye have defiled the temple, and filled the court with the slain, then go your way forth." So they went out, and slew down through the city.