Lamentations 2:6

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Lamentations 2:4–8 · Berean Standard Bible

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.

6 He has laid waste His tabernacle like a garden booth; He has destroyed His place of meeting. The LORD has made Zion forget her appointed feasts and Sabbaths. In His fierce anger He has despised both king and priest.

7 The Lord has rejected His altar; He has abandoned His sanctuary; He has delivered the walls of her palaces into the hand of the enemy. They have raised a shout in the house of the LORD as on the day of an appointed feast.

8 The LORD determined to destroy the wall of the Daughter of Zion. He stretched out a measuring line and did not withdraw His hand from destroying. He made the ramparts and walls lament; together they waste away.

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Psalms 80:12

Why have You broken down its walls, so that all who pass by pick its fruit?

Psalms 89:40

You have broken down all his walls; You have reduced his strongholds to rubble.

Isaiah 5:5

Now I will tell you what I am about to do to My vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it will be consumed; I will tear down its wall, and it will be trampled.

Isaiah 63:18

For a short while Your people possessed Your holy place, but our enemies have trampled Your sanctuary.

Isaiah 64:11

Our holy and beautiful temple, where our fathers praised You, has been burned with fire, and all that was dear to us lies in ruins.

Isaiah 1:8

And the Daughter of Zion is abandoned like a shelter in a vineyard, like a shack in a cucumber field, like a city besieged.

Lamentations 1:4

The roads to Zion mourn, because no one comes to her appointed feasts. All her gates are deserted; her priests groan, her maidens grieve, and she herself is bitter with anguish.

Zephaniah 3:18

“I will gather those among you who grieve over the appointed feasts, so that you will no longer suffer reproach.

Lamentations 4:16

The presence of the LORD has scattered them; He regards them no more. The priests are shown no honor; the elders find no favor.

Lamentations 4:20

The LORD’s anointed, the breath of our life, was captured in their pits. We had said of him, “Under his shadow we will live among the nations.”

Lamentations 5:12

Princes have been hung up by their hands; elders receive no respect.

Isaiah 43:28

So I will disgrace the princes of your sanctuary, and I will devote Jacob to destruction and Israel to reproach.”

Jeremiah 52:11

Then he put out Zedekiah’s eyes, bound him with bronze shackles, and took him to Babylon, where he kept him in custody until his dying day.

Jeremiah 52:12

On the tenth day of the fifth month, in the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar’s reign over Babylon, Nebuzaradan captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, entered Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 52:13

He burned down the house of the LORD, the royal palace, and all the houses of Jerusalem—every significant building.

Jeremiah 52:14

And the whole army of the Chaldeans under the captain of the guard broke down all the walls around Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 52:15

Then Nebuzaradan captain of the guard carried into exile some of the poorest people and those who remained in the city, along with the deserters who had defected to the king of Babylon and the rest of the craftsmen.

Jeremiah 52:16

But Nebuzaradan captain of the guard left behind some of the poorest of the land to tend the vineyards and fields.

Jeremiah 52:17

Moreover, the Chaldeans broke up the bronze pillars and stands and the bronze Sea in the house of the LORD, and they carried all the bronze to Babylon.

Jeremiah 52:18

They also took away the pots, shovels, wick trimmers, sprinkling bowls, dishes, and all the articles of bronze used in the temple service.

Jeremiah 52:19

The captain of the guard also took away the basins, censers, sprinkling bowls, pots, lampstands, pans, and drink offering bowls—anything made of pure gold or fine silver.

Jeremiah 52:20

As for the two pillars, the Sea, the twelve bronze bulls under it, and the movable stands that King Solomon had made for the house of the LORD, the weight of the bronze from all these articles was beyond measure.

Jeremiah 52:21

Each pillar was eighteen cubits tall and twelve cubits in circumference; each was hollow, four fingers thick.

Jeremiah 52:22

The bronze capital atop one pillar was five cubits high, with a network of bronze pomegranates all around. The second pillar, with its pomegranates, was similar.

Jeremiah 52:23

Each capital had ninety-six pomegranates on the sides, and a total of a hundred pomegranates were above the surrounding network.

Jeremiah 52:24

The captain of the guard also took away Seraiah the chief priest, Zephaniah the priest of second rank, and the three doorkeepers.

Jeremiah 52:25

Of those still in the city, he took a court official who had been appointed over the men of war, as well as seven trusted royal advisers. He also took the scribe of the captain of the army, who had enlisted the people of the land, and sixty men who were found in the city.

Jeremiah 52:26

Nebuzaradan captain of the guard took them and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.

Jeremiah 52:27

There at Riblah in the land of Hamath, the king of Babylon struck them down and put them to death. So Judah was taken into exile, away from its own land.

Ezekiel 12:12

And at dusk the prince among them will lift his bags to his shoulder and go out. They will dig through the wall to bring him out. He will cover his face so he cannot see the land.

Ezekiel 12:13

But I will spread My net over him, and he will be caught in My snare. I will bring him to Babylon, the land of the Chaldeans; yet he will not see it, and there he will die.

Ezekiel 17:18

He despised the oath by breaking the covenant. Seeing that he gave his hand in pledge yet did all these things, he will not escape!’

Malachi 2:9

“So I in turn have made you despised and humiliated before all the people, because you have not kept My ways, but have shown partiality in matters of the law.”