Lamentations 2:6

New International Version

He has laid waste his dwelling like a garden; he has destroyed his place of meeting. The Lord has made Zion forget her appointed festivals and her Sabbaths; in his fierce anger he has spurned both king and priest.

Cross References

Psalm 74:7

They burned your sanctuary to the ground; they defiled the dwelling place of your Name.

Psalm 76:2

His tent is in Salem, his dwelling place in Zion.

Psalm 80:12

Why have you broken down its walls so that all who pass by pick its grapes?

Psalm 89:40

You have broken through all his walls and reduced his strongholds to ruins.

Isaiah 1:13

Stop bringing meaningless offerings! Your incense is detestable to me. New Moons, Sabbaths and convocations— I cannot bear your worthless assemblies.

Isaiah 1:8

Daughter Zion is left like a shelter in a vineyard, like a hut in a cucumber field, like a city under siege.

Isaiah 43:28

So I disgraced the dignitaries of your temple; I consigned Jacob to destruction and Israel to scorn.

Isaiah 5:5

Now I will tell you what I am going to do to my vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it will be destroyed; I will break down its wall, and it will be trampled.

Isaiah 5:6

I will make it a wasteland, neither pruned nor cultivated, and briers and thorns will grow there. I will command the clouds not to rain on it.”

Isaiah 63:18

For a little while your people possessed your holy place, but now our enemies have trampled down your sanctuary.

Isaiah 64:11

Our holy and glorious temple, where our ancestors praised you, has been burned with fire, and all that we treasured lies in ruins.

Jeremiah 17:27

But if you do not obey me to keep the Sabbath day holy by not carrying any load as you come through the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day, then I will kindle an unquenchable fire in the gates of Jerusalem that will consume her fortresses.’ ”

Jeremiah 42:18

This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: ‘As my anger and wrath have been poured out on those who lived in Jerusalem, so will my wrath be poured out on you when you go to Egypt. You will be a curse and an object of horror, a curse and an object of reproach; you will never see this place again.’

Jeremiah 45:4

But the Lord has told me to say to you, ‘This is what the Lord says: I will overthrow what I have built and uproot what I have planted, throughout the earth.

Jeremiah 50:28

Listen to the fugitives and refugees from Babylon declaring in Zion how the Lord our God has taken vengeance, vengeance for his temple.

Lamentations 1:4

The roads to Zion mourn, for no one comes to her appointed festivals. All her gateways are desolate, her priests groan, her young women grieve, and she is in bitter anguish.

Lamentations 4:16

The Lord himself has scattered them; he no longer watches over them. The priests are shown no honor, the elders no favor.

Lamentations 4:20

The Lord’s anointed, our very life breath, was caught in their traps. We thought that under his shadow we would live among the nations.

Lamentations 5:12

Princes have been hung up by their hands; elders are shown no respect.

Ezekiel 17:18

He despised the oath by breaking the covenant. Because he had given his hand in pledge and yet did all these things, he shall not escape.

Leviticus 26:31

I will turn your cities into ruins and lay waste your sanctuaries, and I will take no delight in the pleasing aroma of your offerings.

Zephaniah 3:18

“I will remove from you all who mourn over the loss of your appointed festivals, which is a burden and reproach for you.

Malachi 2:9

“So I have caused you to be despised and humiliated before all the people, because you have not followed my ways but have shown partiality in matters of the law.”