Lamentations 2:7

New International Version

The Lord has rejected his altar and abandoned his sanctuary. He has given the walls of her palaces into the hands of the enemy; they have raised a shout in the house of the Lord as on the day of an appointed festival.

Cross References

2 Kings 25:9

He set fire to the temple of the Lord, the royal palace and all the houses of Jerusalem. Every important building he burned down.

2 Chronicles 36:19

They set fire to God’s temple and broke down the wall of Jerusalem; they burned all the palaces and destroyed everything of value there.

Psalm 89:39

You have renounced the covenant with your servant and have defiled his crown in the dust.

Isaiah 64:9

Do not be angry beyond measure, Lord; do not remember our sins forever. Oh, look on us, we pray, for we are all your people.

Jeremiah 21:4

‘This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: I am about to turn against you the weapons of war that are in your hands, which you are using to fight the king of Babylon and the Babylonians who are outside the wall besieging you. And I will gather them inside this city.

Jeremiah 26:18

“Micah of Moresheth prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah. He told all the people of Judah, ‘This is what the Lord Almighty says: “ ‘Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble, the temple hill a mound overgrown with thickets.’

Jeremiah 26:6

then I will make this house like Shiloh and this city a curse among all the nations of the earth.’ ”

Jeremiah 32:29

The Babylonians who are attacking this city will come in and set it on fire; they will burn it down, along with the houses where the people aroused my anger by burning incense on the roofs to Baal and by pouring out drink offerings to other gods.

Jeremiah 39:8

The Babylonians set fire to the royal palace and the houses of the people and broke down the walls of Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 4:26

I looked, and the fruitful land was a desert; all its towns lay in ruins before the Lord, before his fierce anger.

Jeremiah 4:27

This is what the Lord says: “The whole land will be ruined, though I will not destroy it completely.

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.

Jeremiah 52:13

He set fire to the temple of the Lord, the royal palace and all the houses of Jerusalem. Every important building he burned down.

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 2:1

How the Lord has covered Daughter Zion with the cloud of his anger! He has hurled down the splendor of Israel from heaven to earth; he has not remembered his footstool in the day of his anger.

Lamentations 2:5

The Lord is like an enemy; he has swallowed up Israel. He has swallowed up all her palaces and destroyed her strongholds. He has multiplied mourning and lamentation for Daughter Judah.

Ezekiel 24:21

Say to the people of Israel, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: I am about to desecrate my sanctuary—the stronghold in which you take pride, the delight of your eyes, the object of your affection. The sons and daughters you left behind will fall by the sword.

Ezekiel 7:24

I will bring the most wicked of nations to take possession of their houses. I will put an end to the pride of the mighty, and their sanctuaries will be desecrated.

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.

Leviticus 26:44

Yet in spite of this, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them or abhor them so as to destroy them completely, breaking my covenant with them. I am the Lord their God.

Amos 2:5

I will send fire on Judah that will consume the fortresses of Jerusalem.”

Micah 3:12

Therefore because of you, Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble, the temple hill a mound overgrown with thickets.

Matthew 24:2

“Do you see all these things?” he asked. “Truly I tell you, not one stone here will be left on another; every one will be thrown down.”