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The LORD hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion: he hath stretched out a line, he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying: therefore he made the rampart and the wall to lament; they languished together.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
He hath not
Destroying
He made
General references
Bible References
Purposed
Lamentations 2:17
The LORD has done that which he had purposed; he has fulfilled his word that he had commanded in the days of old: he has thrown down, and has not pitied: and he has caused your enemy to rejoice over you, he has set up the might of your adversaries.
Isaiah 5:5
And now; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it shall be eaten up; and break down its wall, and it shall be trampled down:
Jeremiah 5:10
Go you up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end: take away her branches; for they are not the LORD's.
Stretched
2 Samuel 8:2
And he struck Moab, and measured them with a line, casting them down to the ground; even with two lines measured he the ones to put to death, and with one full line the ones to keep alive. And so the Moabites became David's servants, and brought gifts.
2 Kings 21:13
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.
Isaiah 28:17
Justice also will I make the measuring line, and righteousness the plumb line: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
Isaiah 34:11
But the hawk and the porcupine shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness.
Amos 7:7
Thus he showed me: and, behold, the Lord stood upon a wall made by a plumbline, with a plumbline in his hand.
He hath not
Job 13:21
Withdraw your hand far from me: and let not your dread make me afraid.
Ezekiel 20:22
Nevertheless I withdrew my hand, and acted for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I brought them forth.
Destroying
Lamentations 2:2
The Lord has swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and has not pitied: he has thrown down in his wrath the strongholds of the daughter of Judah; he has brought them down to the ground: he has polluted the kingdom and its princes.
He made
Isaiah 3:26
And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she being desolate shall sit upon the ground.
Jeremiah 14:2
Judah mourns, and its gates languish; they mourn for the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem has gone up.
General references
Isaiah 64:10
Your holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.