Lamentations 2:3

New English Translation

In fierce anger he destroyed the whole army of Israel. He withdrew his right hand as the enemy attacked. He was like a raging fire in the land of Jacob; it consumed everything around it. ד (Dalet)

Cross References

2 Chronicles 34:25

This will happen because they have abandoned me and offered sacrifices to other gods, angering me with all the idols they have made. My anger will ignite against this place and will not be extinguished!’”

Job 16:15

I have sewed sackcloth on my skin, and buried my horn in the dust;

Psalm 132:17

There I will make David strong; I have determined that my chosen king’s dynasty will continue.

Psalm 74:11

Why do you remain inactive? Intervene and destroy him!

Psalm 75:10

God says, “I will bring down all the power of the wicked; the godly will be victorious.”

Psalm 75:5

Do not be so certain you have won! Do not speak with your head held so high!

Psalm 79:5

How long will this go on, O Lord? Will you stay angry forever? How long will your rage burn like fire?

Psalm 89:24

He will experience my faithfulness and loyal love, and by my name he will win victories.

Psalm 89:46

How long, O Lord, will this last? Will you remain hidden forever? Will your anger continue to burn like fire?

Isaiah 1:31

The powerful will be like a thread of yarn, their deeds like a spark; both will burn together, and no one will put out the fire.

Isaiah 42:25

So he poured out his fierce anger on them, along with the devastation of war. Its flames encircled them, but they did not realize it; it burned against them, but they did notice.

Jeremiah 21:14

But I will punish you as your deeds deserve,’ says the Lord. ‘I will set fire to your palace; it will burn up everything around it.’”

Jeremiah 4:4

Just as ritual circumcision cuts away the foreskin as an external symbol of dedicated covenant commitment, you must genuinely dedicate yourselves to the Lord and get rid of everything that hinders your commitment to me, people of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem. If you do not, my anger will blaze up like a flaming fire against you that no one will be able to extinguish. That will happen because of the evil you have done.”

Jeremiah 48:25

Moab’s might will be crushed. Its power will be broken. I, the Lord, affirm it!

Jeremiah 7:20

So,” the Lord God says, “my raging fury will be poured out on this land. It will be poured out on human beings and animals, on trees and crops. And it will burn like a fire which cannot be extinguished.”

Lamentations 1:13

He sent down fire into my bones, and it overcame them. He spread out a trapper’s net for my feet; he made me turn back. He has made me desolate; I am faint all day long. נ (Nun)

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 7:14

“They have blown the trumpet and everyone is ready, but no one goes to battle, because my anger is against their whole crowd.

Nahum 1:6

No one can withstand his indignation! No one can resist his fierce anger! His wrath is poured out like volcanic fire, boulders are broken up as he approaches.

Malachi 4:1

(3:19) “For indeed the day is coming, burning like a furnace, and all the arrogant evildoers will be chaff. The coming day will burn them up,” says the Lord who rules over all. “It will not leave even a root or branch.

Luke 1:69

For he has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David,

Luke 3:17

His winnowing fork is in his hand to clean out his threshing floor and to gather the wheat into his storehouse, but the chaff he will burn up with inextinguishable fire.”

Deuteronomy 32:22

For a fire has been kindled by my anger, and it burns to lowest Sheol; it consumes the earth and its produce, and ignites the foundations of the mountains.