Lamentations 2:17

Modern English Version

The Lord has done what He planned; He has fulfilled His word that He had commanded in the days of old. He has thrown down and has not pitied, and He has caused the enemy to rejoice over you; He has exalted the power of your adversaries.

Cross References

Ezekiel 5:11

Therefore, as I live, says the Lord God, surely, because you have defiled My sanctuary with all your detestable things and with all your abominations, therefore I will also diminish you, and My eye shall have no pity, nor will I spare.

Psalm 89:42

You have exalted the right hand of his adversaries; You have made all his enemies rejoice.

Ezekiel 8:18

Therefore I will indeed deal in fury. My eye shall not spare, nor will I have pity. And though they cry in My ears with a loud voice, yet I will not listen to them.”

Lamentations 1:5

Her adversaries have become her masters, her enemies prosper; for the Lord has afflicted her because of the multitude of her transgressions. Her children have gone into captivity before the enemy.

Micah 2:3

Therefore, thus says the Lord: Behold, I am devising disaster against this family, from which you cannot remove your necks; and you will not walk haughtily, for it will be a time of calamity.

Ezekiel 9:10

But as for Me, My eye shall not spare, nor will I have pity, but I will recompense their way upon their heads.”

Lamentations 2:8

The Lord has purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion. He has stretched out a line; He has not withdrawn His hand from destroying; therefore He caused the rampart and the wall to lament; they languished together.

Jeremiah 18:11

Now therefore speak to the men of Judah and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying: Thus says the Lord: Behold, I am shaping disaster against you and devising a plan against you. Repent now, everyone from his evil way, and make your ways and your deeds good.

Psalm 38:16

For I said, “Hear me, lest they rejoice over me, lest, when my foot slips, they exalt themselves against me.”

Psalm 35:24

Vindicate me, O  Lord, my God, according to Your righteousness, and let them not rejoice over me.

Psalm 35:26

Let those who rejoice at my calamity be ashamed and brought to confusion; let them be clothed with shame and dishonor who exalt themselves against me.

Isaiah 14:29

Rejoice not, O Philistia, all of you, because the rod that struck you is broken; for out of the serpent’s root shall come forth a viper, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent.

Jeremiah 4:28

For this the earth shall mourn, and the heavens above be black, because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and will not relent, nor will I turn back from it.

Lamentations 3:43

You have covered Yourself with anger and pursued us; You have killed and not pitied.

Lamentations 4:11

The Lord has fulfilled His fury, He has poured out His fierce anger. He kindled a fire in Zion, and it has devoured its foundations.

Daniel 9:12

He has confirmed His words, which He had spoken against us and against our judges who judged us, by bringing on us great calamity. For under the whole heaven there has not been done such as has been done to Jerusalem.

Zechariah 1:6

Surely My words and statutes that I commanded to My servants, the prophets, did they not persuade your fathers? They turned back and said, “Whatever the Lord of Hosts planned to do to us according to our ways and deeds, so He has done to us.”

1 Kings 9:7

then I will cut Israel out of the land which I have given them, and I will cast this house, which I have consecrated for My name, out of My sight, and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all people.

Psalm 89:43

Moreover, You have turned back the edge of his sword, and You have not sustained him in battle.

Jeremiah 40:3

And the Lord has brought it and done according as He has said. Because you have sinned against the Lord, and have not obeyed His voice, therefore this thing has come upon you.

Zephaniah 1:2

I will utterly consume all things on the face of the earth, says the Lord;