Lamentations 2:1

New Living Translation

The Lord in his anger has cast a dark shadow over beautiful Jerusalem. The fairest of Israel’s cities lies in the dust, thrown down from the heights of heaven. In his day of great anger, the Lord has shown no mercy even to his Temple.

Cross References

2 Samuel 1:19

Your pride and joy, O Israel, lies dead on the hills! Oh, how the mighty heroes have fallen!

1 Chronicles 28:2

David rose to his feet and said: “My brothers and my people! It was my desire to build a Temple where the Ark of the Lord’s Covenant, God’s footstool, could rest permanently. I made the necessary preparations for building it,

Psalm 132:7

Let us go to the sanctuary of the Lord; let us worship at the footstool of his throne.

Psalm 89:45

You have made him old before his time and publicly disgraced him. Interlude

Psalm 99:5

Exalt the Lord our God! Bow low before his feet, for he is holy!

Isaiah 64:11

The holy and beautiful Temple where our ancestors praised you has been burned down, and all the things of beauty are destroyed.

Jeremiah 30:14

All your lovers—your allies—have left you and do not care about you anymore. I have wounded you cruelly, as though I were your enemy. For your sins are many, and your guilt is great.

Lamentations 1:1

Jerusalem, once so full of people, is now deserted. She who was once great among the nations now sits alone like a widow. Once the queen of all the earth, she is now a slave.

Lamentations 1:12

“Does it mean nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look around and see if there is any suffering like mine, which the Lord brought on me when he erupted in fierce anger.

Lamentations 2:17

But it is the Lord who did just as he planned. He has fulfilled the promises of disaster he made long ago. He has destroyed Jerusalem without mercy. He has caused her enemies to gloat over her and has given them power over her.

Lamentations 4:1

How the gold has lost its luster! Even the finest gold has become dull. The sacred gemstones lie scattered in the streets!

Lamentations 4:11

But now the anger of the Lord is satisfied. His fierce anger has been poured out. He started a fire in Jerusalem that burned the city to its foundations.

Ezekiel 13:13

“Therefore, this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I will sweep away your whitewashed wall with a storm of indignation, with a great flood of anger, and with hailstones of fury.

Ezekiel 19:12

But the vine was uprooted in fury and thrown down to the ground. The desert wind dried up its fruit and tore off its strong branches, so that it withered and was destroyed by fire.

Ezekiel 24:21

and I was told to give this message to the people of Israel. This is what the Sovereign Lord says: I will defile my Temple, the source of your security and pride, the place your heart delights in. Your sons and daughters whom you left behind in Judah will be slaughtered by the sword.

Ezekiel 30:18

When I come to break the proud strength of Egypt, it will be a dark day for Tahpanhes, too. A dark cloud will cover Tahpanhes, and its daughters will be led away as captives.

Joel 2:2

It is a day of darkness and gloom, a day of thick clouds and deep blackness. Suddenly, like dawn spreading across the mountains, a great and mighty army appears. Nothing like it has been seen before or will ever be seen again.

Matthew 11:23

“And you people of Capernaum, will you be honored in heaven? No, you will go down to the place of the dead. For if the miracles I did for you had been done in wicked Sodom, it would still be here today.

Luke 10:15

And you people of Capernaum, will you be honored in heaven? No, you will go down to the place of the dead.”

Luke 10:18

“Yes,” he told them, “I saw Satan fall from heaven like lightning!

1 Samuel 4:21

She named the child Ichabod (which means “Where is the glory?”), for she said, “Israel’s glory is gone.” She named him this because the Ark of God had been captured and because her father-in-law and husband were dead.

1 Samuel 4:22

Then she said, “The glory has departed from Israel, for the Ark of God has been captured.”