Lamentations 2:1

New English Translation

Alas! The Lord has covered Daughter Zion with his anger. He has thrown down the splendor of Israel from heaven to earth; he did not protect his temple when he displayed his anger. ב (Bet)

Cross References

2 Samuel 1:19

The beauty of Israel lies slain on your high places! How the mighty have fallen!

1 Chronicles 28:2

King David rose to his feet and said: “Listen to me, my brothers and my people. I wanted to build a temple where the ark of the Lord’s covenant could be placed as a footstool for our God. I have made the preparations for building it.

Psalm 132:7

Let us go to his dwelling place! Let us worship before his footstool!

Psalm 89:45

You have cut short his youth, and have covered him with shame. (Selah)

Psalm 99:5

Praise the Lord our God! Worship before his footstool! He is holy!

Isaiah 64:11

Our holy temple, our pride and joy, the place where our ancestors praised you, has been burned with fire; all our prized possessions have been destroyed.

Jeremiah 30:14

All your allies have abandoned you. They no longer have any concern for you. For I have attacked you like an enemy would. I have chastened you cruelly. For your wickedness is so great and your sin is so much.

Lamentations 1:1

Alas! The city once full of people now sits all alone! The prominent lady among the nations has become a widow! The princess who once ruled the provinces has become a forced laborer! ב (Bet)

Lamentations 1:12

Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by on the road? Look and see! Is there any pain like mine? The Lord has afflicted me, he has inflicted it on me when he burned with anger. מ (Mem)

Lamentations 2:17

The Lord has done what he planned; he has fulfilled his promise that he threatened long ago: He has overthrown you without mercy and has enabled the enemy to gloat over you; he has exalted your adversaries’ power. צ (Tsade)

Lamentations 4:1

Alas! Gold has lost its luster; pure gold loses value. Jewels are scattered on every street corner. ב (Bet)

Lamentations 4:11

The Lord fully vented his wrath; he poured out his fierce anger. He started a fire in Zion; it consumed her foundations. ל (Lamed)

Ezekiel 13:13

“‘Therefore this is what the sovereign Lord says: In my rage I will make a violent wind break out. In my anger there will be a deluge of rain and hailstones in destructive fury.

Ezekiel 19:12

But it was plucked up in anger; it was thrown down to the ground. The east wind dried up its fruit; its strong branches broke off and withered – a fire consumed them.

Ezekiel 24:21

Say to the house of Israel, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: Realize I am about to desecrate my sanctuary – the source of your confident pride, the object in which your eyes delight, and your life’s passion. Your very own sons and daughters whom you have left behind will die by the sword.

Ezekiel 30:18

In Tahpanhes the day will be dark when I break the yoke of Egypt there. Her confident pride will cease within her; a cloud will cover her, and her daughters will go into captivity.

Joel 2:2

It will be a day of dreadful darkness, a day of foreboding storm clouds, like blackness spread over the mountains. It is a huge and powerful army – there has never been anything like it ever before, and there will not be anything like it for many generations to come!

Matthew 11:23

And you, Capernaum, will you be exalted to heaven? No, you will be thrown down to Hades! For if the miracles done among you had been done in Sodom, it would have continued to this day.

Luke 10:15

And you, Capernaum, will you be exalted to heaven? No, you will be thrown down to Hades!

Luke 10:18

So he said to them, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven.

1 Samuel 4:21

She named the boy Ichabod, saying, “The glory has departed from Israel,” referring to the capture of the ark of God and the deaths of her father-in-law and her husband.

1 Samuel 4:22

She said, “The glory has departed from Israel, because the ark of God has been captured.”