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The LORD hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion: he hath stretched out a line, he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying: therefore he made the rampart and the wall to lament; they languished together.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
{Pe} The LORD hath fulfilled the thing that he was purposed to do; and performed that he had devised long ago. He hath destroyed; and not spared. He hath caused thine adversary to triumph over thee; and set up the horn of thine enemy.
Isaiah 5:5
Well, now I shall tell you how I will do with my vineyard: I will take the hedge from it, that it may perish, and break down the wall, that it may be trodden under foot.
Jeremiah 5:10
"Climb up upon their walls, beat them down, but destroy them not utterly: cut off their branches because they are not the LORD's.
Stretched
2 Samuel 8:2
And he beat the Moabites and measured them with a line, making them lie along the earth; so that he brought two parts of them to death, and let one part live. And so the Moabites became David's servants, and paid tribute.
2 Kings 21:13
And I will stretch over Jerusalem the squaring line of Samaria and the plummet of the house of Ahab. And I will wipe out Jerusalem, as a man would wipe a dish, and when he hath wiped it, turneth it upside down.
Isaiah 28:17
Righteousness will I set up again in the balance, and judgment in the weights. The tempest of hail shall take away your refuge, that ye have to deceive withal: and the overflowing waters shall break down your strongholds of dissimulation."
Isaiah 34:11
But Pelicans, Storks, great Owls, and Ravens shall have it in possession, and dwell therein. For God shall spread out the line of desolation upon it, and weight it with the stones of emptiness.
Amos 7:7
Moreover, he showed me this vision: behold, the LORD stood upon a plastered wall, and a mason's trowel in his hand.
He hath not
Job 13:21
Withdraw thine hand from me, and let not the fearful dread of thee make me afraid.
Ezekiel 20:22
Nevertheless, I withdrew my hand for my name's sake, lest it should be unhallowed among the Heathen, before whom I had brought them forth.
Destroying
Lamentations 2:2
{Beth} The LORD hath cast down all the glory of Jacob without any favour: all the strong places of the daughter Judah hath he broken in his wrath, and thrown them down to the ground: her kingdom and her princes hath he suspended.
He made
Isaiah 3:26
At that time shall their gates mourn and complain, and they shall sit as desolate folk upon the earth.
Jeremiah 14:2
"Judah shall mourn, men shall not go much more through his gates: the land shall be no more had in reputation, and the cry of Jerusalem shall break out.
General references
Isaiah 64:10
The cities of thy Sanctuary lie waste: Zion is a wilderness, and Jerusalem a desert.