Lamentations 2:17

New American Bible - revised edition

The Lord has done what he planned. He has fulfilled the threat Decreed from days of old, destroying without pity! He let the enemy gloat over you and exalted the horn of your foes.

Cross References

1 Kings 9:7

I will cut off Israel from the land I gave them and repudiate the house I have consecrated for my name. Israel shall become a proverb and a byword among all nations,

Psalm 35:24

Defend me because you are just, Lord; my God, do not let them rejoice over me.

Psalm 35:26

Put to shame and confound all who relish my misfortune. Clothe with shame and disgrace those who lord it over me.

Psalm 38:16

Lord, it is for you that I wait; O Lord, my God, you respond.

Psalm 89:42

All who pass through seize plunder; his neighbors deride him.

Psalm 89:43

You have exalted the right hand of his foes, have gladdened all his enemies.

Isaiah 14:29

Do not rejoice, Philistia, not one of you, that the rod which struck you is broken; For out of the serpent’s root shall come an adder, its offspring shall be a flying saraph.

Jeremiah 18:11

And now, tell this to the people of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem: Thus says the Lord: Look, I am fashioning evil against you and making a plan. Return, all of you, from your evil way; reform your ways and your deeds.

Jeremiah 4:28

Because of this the earth shall mourn, the heavens above shall darken; I have spoken, I will not change my mind, I have decided, I will not turn back.

Jeremiah 40:3

Now he has made it happen, accomplishing what he decreed; because you sinned against the Lord and did not listen to his voice, this decree has been realized against you.

Lamentations 1:5

Her foes have come out on top, her enemies are secure; Because the Lord has afflicted her for her many rebellions. Her children have gone away, captive before the foe.

Lamentations 2:8

The Lord was bent on destroying the wall of daughter Zion: He stretched out the measuring line; did not hesitate to devour, Brought grief on rampart and wall till both succumbed.

Lamentations 3:43

You wrapped yourself in wrath and pursued us, killing without pity;

Lamentations 4:11

The Lord has exhausted his anger, poured out his blazing wrath; He has kindled a fire in Zion that has consumed her foundations.

Ezekiel 5:11

Therefore, as I live, says the Lord God, because you have defiled my sanctuary with all your atrocities and all your abominations, I will surely withdraw and not look upon you with pity nor spare you.

Ezekiel 8:18

Therefore I in turn will act furiously: my eye will not spare, nor will I take pity. Even if they cry out in a loud voice for me to hear, I shall not listen to them.

Ezekiel 9:10

My eye, however, will not spare, nor shall I take pity, but I will bring their conduct down upon their heads.

Daniel 9:12

He fulfilled the words he spoke against us and against those who ruled us, by bringing upon us an evil—no evil so great has happened under heaven as happened in Jerusalem.

Micah 2:3

Therefore thus says the Lord: Look, I am planning against this family an evil from which you cannot free your necks; Nor shall you walk with head held high, for it will be an evil time.

Zephaniah 1:2

I will completely sweep away all things from the face of the land—oracle of the Lord.

Zechariah 1:6

But my words and my statutes, with which I charged my servants the prophets, did these not overtake your ancestors? Then they repented and admitted: “Just as the Lord of hosts intended to treat us according to our ways and deeds, so the Lord has done.” First Vision: Horses Patrolling the Earth.