Lamentations 2:8

King James 3 - The Literal Traslation

Jehovah devised to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion; He has stretched out a line. He has not turned back His hand from swallowing; and He made rampart and wall lament; they languish together.

Cross References

2 Samuel 8:2

And he struck Moab, and measured them with a line; making them to lie down on the ground. And he measured two lines to cause them to die, and the fulness of the line to keep alive. And the Moabites were slaves to David, bearing a gift.

2 Kings 21:13

And I will stretch out over Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and the plummet of the house of Ahab, and shall wipe Jerusalem as one wipes a dish (he wipes and turns it on its face).

Job 13:21

Remove Your palm from me, and let not Your terror make me afraid.

Isaiah 22:5

For it is a day of tumult, and of trampling down, and of confusion, by the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts, in the valley of vision; digging down a wall, and crying to the mountain.

Isaiah 28:17

And I will lay judgment for a line, and righteousness for a plummet; and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of the lie; and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.

Isaiah 3:26

And her gates shall lament and mourn, and she shall sit on the ground.

Isaiah 34:11

But the owl and the hedgehog shall possess it; and the eared owl and the raven shall live in it. And He shall stretch out on it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness.

Isaiah 5:5

And now, please, I will make known to you what I will do to My vineyard. I will turn aside its hedge, and it will be burned. I will breach its wall, and it will become a trampling place.

Jeremiah 14:2

Judah mourns, and her gates droop. They put on mourning for the land, and the cry of Jerusalem has gone up.

Jeremiah 5:10

Go up on her vine rows and destroy, but do not make a full ending; turn aside her branches, for they are not Jehovah’s.

Jeremiah 52:13

And he burned the house of Jehovah and the king’s house. And he burned all the houses of Jerusalem with fire, and all the houses of the great ones.

Lamentations 2:17

Jehovah has done that which He purposed; He fulfilled His Word which He commanded from days of earliest time. He has dashed and not pitied. And He made the enemy to rejoice over you; He raised the horn of your oppressive ones.

Lamentations 2:18

Their heart cried to the Lord. O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears go down like a torrent by day and by night; do not give relief to yourself; let not the daughter of your eye rest.

Lamentations 2:2

The Lord swallowed up all of Jacob’s dwelling-places, and did not pity. In His wrath He has broken down the strongholds of the daughter of Judah. He made them touch to the earth. He has defiled the kingdom and its rulers.

Lamentations 2:5

The Lord was like an enemy; He swallowed up Israel; He swallowed up all his fortresses and destroyed his strongholds; and He increased mourning and weeping in the daughter of Judah.

Ezekiel 20:22

But I turned back My hand and worked for My name’s sake, that it should not be profaned in the eyes of the nations, from whom I brought them out in their eyes.