Lamentations 2:8

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

The Lord determined to destroy the wall of Daughter Zion. He stretched out a measuring line and did not restrain himself from destroying. He made the ramparts and walls grieve; together they waste away.

Cross References

2 Kings 21:13

I will stretch over Jerusalem the measuring line used on Samaria and the mason’s level used on the house of Ahab,  and I will wipe  Jerusalem clean as one wipes a bowl #– #wiping it and turning it upside down.

Jeremiah 14:2

Judah mourns; her city gates languish. Her people are on the ground in mourning; Jerusalem’s cry rises up.

Isaiah 34:11

Eagle owls  and herons  will possess it, and long-eared owls and ravens will dwell there. The Lord will stretch out a measuring line and a plumb line  over her for her destruction and chaos.

Isaiah 3:26

Then her gates  will lament and mourn; deserted, she will sit on the ground.

Jeremiah 5:10

Go up among her vineyard terraces and destroy them, but do not finish them off. Prune away her shoots, for they do not belong to the  Lord.

Ezekiel 20:22

But I withheld my hand and acted for the sake of my name, so that it would not be profaned in the eyes of the nations in whose sight I brought them out.

Lamentations 2:17

The Lord has done what he planned; he has accomplished his decree, which he ordained in days of old. He has demolished without compassion, letting the enemy gloat over you and exalting the horn of your adversaries.

Lamentations 2:5

The Lord is like an enemy; he has swallowed up Israel. He swallowed up all its palaces and destroyed its fortified cities. He has multiplied mourning and lamentation within Daughter Judah.

Lamentations 2:2

Without compassion  the Lord has swallowed up all the dwellings of Jacob. In his wrath he has demolished the fortified cities  of Daughter Judah. He brought them to the ground and defiled the kingdom and its leaders.

Isaiah 28:17

And I will make justice the measuring line and righteousness the mason’s level.’ Hail will sweep away the false refuge, and water will flood your hiding place.

Isaiah 5:5

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

Job 13:21

remove your hand from me, and do not let your terror frighten me.

2 Samuel 8:2

He also defeated the Moabites, and after making them lie down on the ground, he measured them off with a cord. He measured every two cord lengths of those to be put to death and one full length of those to be kept alive. So the Moabites became David’s subjects and brought tribute.

Lamentations 2:18

The hearts of the people cry out to the Lord. Wall of Daughter Zion, let your tears run down like a river day and night. Give yourself no relief and your  eyes no rest.

Isaiah 22:5

For the Lord God of Armies had a day of tumult, trampling, and confusion in the Valley of Vision – people shouting  and crying to the mountains;

Jeremiah 52:13

He burned the Lord’s temple, the king’s palace, all the houses of Jerusalem; he burned down all the great houses.