Lamentations 2:6

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

He pulled up his own tent as if it were a garden. He has ruined the place where the people came together to worship him. The Lord has made people forget the special assemblies and special days of rest in Zion. He rejected the king and the priests. He was angry and rejected them.

Cross References

Zephaniah 3:18

like people at a party. I will take away your shame. I will make them stop hurting you.

Lamentations 1:4

The roads to Zion are very sad, because no one comes to Zion for the festivals anymore. All of Zion’s gates have been destroyed; all her priests groan in sorrow. Zion’s young women have been taken away, and all this made Zion sad.

Lamentations 4:16

The Lord himself destroyed them. He didn’t look after them anymore. He didn’t respect the priests. He was not friendly to the elders of Judah.

Malachi 2:9

“You don’t live the way I told you. You have not accepted my teachings. So I will cause people to hate you and think you are worth nothing.”

Ezekiel 17:18

But the king of Judah will not escape, because he ignored his agreement. He broke his promise to Nebuchadnezzar.”

Lamentations 5:12

The enemy hanged our princes. They didn’t honor our elders.

Lamentations 4:20

The king was very important to us. He was like the breath we breathe, but he was trapped by them. The Lord himself chose the king, and we said this about the king, “We will live in his shadow. He protects us from the nations.”

Isaiah 64:11

Our ancestors worshiped you in our holy Temple. That wonderful Temple has now been burned. All our precious possessions have been destroyed.

Isaiah 63:18

Your holy people had their land only a short time. Then our enemies trampled down your holy Temple.

Isaiah 43:28

I will make your Temple leaders unfit to serve there. I will destroy Jacob. Bad things will happen to Israel.

Isaiah 5:5

“Now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will pull up the thornbushes that protect it, and I will burn them. I will break down the stone wall and use the stones for a walkway.

Isaiah 1:13

“Don’t keep bringing me those worthless sacrifices. I hate the incense you give me. I cannot stand your festivals for the New Moon, the Sabbath, and other special meeting days. I hate the evil you do during those holy times together.

Isaiah 1:8

The city of Jerusalem is now like an empty shed left in a vineyard. It is like an old straw hut abandoned in a field of cucumbers or like a city surrounded by enemies.

Psalm 89:40

You pulled down the walls of his city. You destroyed all his fortresses.

Psalm 80:12

God, why did you pull down the walls that protect your vine? Now everyone who passes by picks its grapes.

Psalm 76:2

His Temple is in Salem. His house is on Mount Zion.

Jeremiah 17:27

“‘But if you don’t listen to me and obey me, bad things will happen. If you carry loads into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day, you are not keeping it as a holy day. So I will start a fire that cannot be put out. That fire will start at the gates of Jerusalem, and it will burn until it burns even the palaces.’”

Jeremiah 50:28

People are running out of Babylon. They are escaping from that country and coming to Zion. They are telling everyone the good news about what the Lord is doing. The Lord our God is giving Babylon the punishment it deserves. The Lord is destroying Babylon, because it destroyed his Temple!

Leviticus 26:31

I will destroy your cities. I will make your holy places empty. I will stop smelling your offerings.

Psalm 74:7

They burned down your Holy Place. It was built to honor your name, but they pulled it down to the ground.

Isaiah 5:6

I will turn my vineyard into useless land. No one will care for the plants or work in the field. Weeds and thorns will grow there. I will command the clouds not to rain on it.”

Jeremiah 42:18

“This is what the Lord All-Powerful, the God of the people of Israel, says: ‘I showed my anger against Jerusalem. I punished the people who lived there. In the same way I will show my anger against everyone who goes to Egypt. People will use you as an example when they ask for bad things to happen to other people. You will become like a curse word. People will be ashamed of you, and they will insult you. And you will never see Judah again.’

Jeremiah 45:4

Jeremiah, tell Baruch that this is what the Lord says: I will tear down what I have built, and I will pull up what I have planted. I will do that everywhere in Judah.