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The LORD hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion: he hath stretched out a line, he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying: therefore he made the rampart and the wall to lament; they languished together.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

Jehovah did what he purposed; he completed his word which he commanded in days of old: he pulled down and he pitied not: and be will gladden the enemy over thee; he lifted up the horn of thine adversaries.

And now I will make known to you now what I do to my vineyard, taking away its hedge, and it was for consuming, breaking down its wall, and it was for a treading down.

Go ye up upon her walls and destroy; and ye shall not make a completion: remove her twigs, for they are not to Jehovah.

Stretched

And he will smite Moab, and measure them with a cord, laying them down upon the earth; and he will measure with two cords to put to death, and a full cord to save alive. And Moab will be to David for servants, lifting up gifts.

And I stretched over Jerusalem the cord of Shomeron, and the weight of the house of Ahab: and I wiped off Jerusalem as one will wipe dishes, wiping, and turning upon its face.

And I set judgment to the line and justice to the weight: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of falsehood, and the waters shall overflow the covering.

And the pelican and the hedgehog shall possess it; the ibis and the raven shall dwell in it: and he stretched out upon it the line of desolation and the stones of emptiness.

Thus he caused me to see: and behold, Jehovah stood upon a wall of lead, and lead in his hand.

He hath not

Remove thy hand far from me, and thy terror shall not make me afraid.

And I turned back my hand; and I will do for sake of my name, that it was not profaned before the eyes of the nations which I brought them forth before their eyes.

Destroying

Jehovah swallowed up, not pitying, all the seats of Jacob: he pulled down in his wrath the fortresses of the daughter of Judah; he caused to touch to the earth: he defiled the kingdom and her chiefs.

He made

And her entrances sighed and mourned; and being clean, she shall sit upon the earth.

Judah mourned and her gates languished; they were darkened to the earth, and the outcry of Jerusalem went up.

General references

The cities of thy holy place were desert; Zion was a desert., Jerusalem a desolation.