Lamentations 2:8

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

The LORD hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion: he hath stretched out a line, he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying: therefore he made the rampart and the wall to lament; they languished together.

Purposed

Lamentations 2:17

Isaiah 5:5

Jeremiah 5:10

Stretched

Amos 7:7

He hath not

Job 13:21

Ezekiel 20:22

Destroying

Lamentations 2:2

He made

Isaiah 3:26

Jeremiah 14:2

General references

Isaiah 64:10

Bible References

Purposed

LORD has done that which he purposed. He has fulfilled his word that he commanded in the days of old. He has thrown down, and has not pitied. And he has caused the enemy to rejoice over thee. He has exalted the horn of thine advers

And now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard. I will take away the hedge of it, and it shall be eaten up. I will break down the wall of it, and it shall be trodden down.

Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy, but make not a full end. Take away her branches, for they are not LORD's.

Stretched

And he smote Moab, and measured them with the line, making them to lay down on the ground. And he measured two lines to put to death, and one full line to keep alive. And the Moabites became servants to David, and brought tribute.

And I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and the plummet of the house of Ahab. And I will wipe Jerusalem as a man wipes a dish, wiping it and turning it upside down.

And I will make justice the line, and righteousness the plummet. And the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding-place.

But the pelican and the porcupine shall possess it. And the owl and the raven shall dwell in it. And he will stretch over it the line of confusion, and the plummet of emptiness.

Thus he showed me: And, behold, LORD stood beside a wall made by a plumb-line, with a plumb-line in his hand.

He hath not

Withdraw thy hand far from me, and do not let thy dread make me afraid.

Nevertheless I withdrew my hand, and worked for my name's sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I brought them forth.

Destroying

LORD has swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and has not pitied. In his wrath he has thrown down the strongholds of the daughter of Judah. He has brought them down to the ground. He has profaned the kingdom and the rulers th

He made

And her gates shall lament and mourn, and she shall be desolate and sit upon the ground.

Judah mourns, and the gates thereof languish. They sit in black upon the ground, and the cry of Jerusalem has gone up.

General references

Thy holy cities have become a wilderness. Zion has become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.