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The LORD hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion: he hath stretched out a line, he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying: therefore he made the rampart and the wall to lament; they languished together.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

The Lord has done that which was his purpose; he has put into force the orders which he gave in the days which are past; pulling down without pity, he has made your hater glad over you, lifting up the horn of those who were against you.

And now, this is what I will do to my vine-garden: I will take away the circle of thorns round it, and it will be burned up; its wall will be broken down and the beasts of the field will go through it;

Go up against her vines and make waste; let the destruction be complete: take away her branches, for they are not the Lord's.

Stretched

And he overcame the Moabites, and he had them measured with a line when they were stretched out on the earth; marking out two lines for death and one full line for life. So the Moabites became servants to David and gave him offerings.

And over Jerusalem will be stretched the line of Samaria and the weight of Ahab; Jerusalem will be washed clean as a plate is washed, and turned over on its face.

And I will make right decision the measuring-line, and righteousness the weight: and the ice-storm will take away the safe place of false words, and the secret place will be covered by the flowing waters.

But the birds of the waste land will have their place there; it will be a heritage for the bittern and the raven: and it will be measured out with line and weight as a waste land.

This is what he let me see: and I saw the Lord stationed by a wall made straight by a weighted line, and he had a weighted line in his hand.

He hath not

Take your hand far away from me; and let me not be overcome by fear of you.

And I was acting for the honour of my name, so that it might not be made unclean in the eyes of the nations, before whose eyes I had taken them out.

Destroying

The Lord has given up to destruction all the living-places of Jacob without pity; pulling down in his wrath the strong places of the daughter of Judah, stretching out on the earth the wounded, even her king and her rulers.

He made

And in the public places of her towns will be sorrow and weeping; and she will be seated on the earth, waste and uncovered.

Judah is weeping and its doors are dark with sorrow, and people are seated on the earth clothed in black; and the cry of Jerusalem has gone up.

General references

Your holy towns have become a waste, Zion has become a waste, Jerusalem is a mass of broken walls.