Lamentations 2:3

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Lamentations 2:1–5 · Berean Standard Bible

1 How the Lord has covered the Daughter of Zion with the cloud of His anger! He has cast the glory of Israel from heaven to earth. He has abandoned His footstool in the day of His anger.

2 Without pity the Lord has swallowed up all the dwellings of Jacob. In His wrath He has demolished the fortified cities of the Daughter of Judah. He brought to the ground and defiled her kingdom and its princes.

3 In fierce anger He has cut off every horn of Israel and withdrawn His right hand at the approach of the enemy. He has burned in Jacob like a flaming fire that consumes everything around it.

4 He has bent His bow like an enemy; His right hand is positioned. Like a foe He has killed all who were pleasing to the eye; He has poured out His wrath like fire on the tent of the Daughter of Zion.

5 The Lord is like an enemy; He has swallowed up Israel. He has swallowed up all her palaces and destroyed her strongholds. He has multiplied mourning and lamentation for the Daughter of Judah.

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Job 16:15

I have sewn sackcloth over my skin; I have buried my horn in the dust.

Psalms 75:5

Do not lift up your horn against heaven or speak with an outstretched neck.’”

Psalms 75:10

“All the horns of the wicked I will cut off, but the horns of the righteous will be exalted.”

Psalms 89:24

My faithfulness and loving devotion will be with him, and through My name his horn will be exalted.

Psalms 132:17

There I will make a horn grow for David; I have prepared a lamp for My anointed one.

Jeremiah 48:25

The horn of Moab has been cut off, and his arm is broken,” declares the LORD.

Luke 1:69

He has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of His servant David,

Psalms 74:11

Why do You withdraw Your strong right hand? Stretch it out to destroy them!

Deuteronomy 32:22

For a fire has been kindled by My anger, and it burns to the depths of Sheol; it consumes the earth and its produce, and scorches the foundations of the mountains.

Psalms 79:5

How long, O LORD? Will You be angry forever? Will Your jealousy burn like fire?

Psalms 89:46

How long, O LORD? Will You hide Yourself forever? Will Your wrath keep burning like fire?

Isaiah 1:31

The strong man will become tinder and his work will be a spark; both will burn together, with no one to quench the flames.

Isaiah 42:25

So He poured out on them His furious anger and the fierceness of battle. It enveloped them in flames, but they did not understand; it consumed them, but they did not take it to heart.

Jeremiah 4:4

Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and remove the foreskins of your hearts, O men of Judah and people of Jerusalem. Otherwise, My wrath will break out like fire and burn with no one to extinguish it, because of your evil deeds.”

Jeremiah 7:20

Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, My anger and My fury will be poured out on this place, on man and beast, on the trees of the field and the produce of the land, and it will burn and not be extinguished.

Malachi 4:1

“For behold, the day is coming, burning like a furnace, when all the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble; the day is coming when I will set them ablaze,” says the LORD of Hosts. “Not a root or branch will be left to them.”

Luke 3:17

His winnowing fork is in His hand to clear His threshing floor and to gather the wheat into His barn; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”