Lamentations 2:6

New Living Translation

He has broken down his Temple as though it were merely a garden shelter. The Lord has blotted out all memory of the holy festivals and Sabbath days. Kings and priests fall together before his fierce anger.

Cross References

Psalm 74:7

They burned your sanctuary to the ground. They defiled the place that bears your name.

Psalm 76:2

Jerusalem is where he lives; Mount Zion is his home.

Psalm 80:12

But now, why have you broken down our walls so that all who pass by may steal our fruit?

Psalm 89:40

You have broken down the walls protecting him and ruined every fort defending him.

Isaiah 1:13

Stop bringing me your meaningless gifts; the incense of your offerings disgusts me! As for your celebrations of the new moon and the Sabbath and your special days for fasting— they are all sinful and false. I want no more of your pious meetings.

Isaiah 1:8

Beautiful Jerusalem stands abandoned like a watchman’s shelter in a vineyard, like a lean-to in a cucumber field after the harvest, like a helpless city under siege.

Isaiah 43:28

That is why I have disgraced your priests; I have decreed complete destruction for Jacob and shame for Israel.

Isaiah 5:5

Now let me tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will tear down its hedges and let it be destroyed. I will break down its walls and let the animals trample it.

Isaiah 5:6

I will make it a wild place where the vines are not pruned and the ground is not hoed, a place overgrown with briers and thorns. I will command the clouds to drop no rain on it.

Isaiah 63:18

How briefly your holy people possessed your holy place, and now our enemies have destroyed it.

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 17:27

“‘But if you do not listen to me and refuse to keep the Sabbath holy, and if on the Sabbath day you bring loads of merchandise through the gates of Jerusalem just as on other days, then I will set fire to these gates. The fire will spread to the palaces, and no one will be able to put out the roaring flames.’”

Jeremiah 42:18

“This is what the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘Just as my anger and fury have been poured out on the people of Jerusalem, so they will be poured out on you when you enter Egypt. You will be an object of damnation, horror, cursing, and mockery. And you will never see your homeland again.’

Jeremiah 45:4

“Baruch, this is what the Lord says: ‘I will destroy this nation that I built. I will uproot what I planted.

Jeremiah 50:28

Listen to the people who have escaped from Babylon, as they tell in Jerusalem how the Lord our God has taken vengeance against those who destroyed his Temple.

Lamentations 1:4

The roads to Jerusalem are in mourning, for crowds no longer come to celebrate the festivals. The city gates are silent, her priests groan, her young women are crying— how bitter is her fate!

Lamentations 4:16

The Lord himself has scattered them, and he no longer helps them. People show no respect for the priests and no longer honor the leaders.

Lamentations 4:20

Our king—the Lord’s anointed, the very life of our nation— was caught in their snares. We had thought that his shadow would protect us against any nation on earth!

Lamentations 5:12

Our princes are being hanged by their thumbs, and our elders are treated with contempt.

Ezekiel 17:18

For the king of Israel disregarded his treaty and broke it after swearing to obey; therefore, he will not escape.

Leviticus 26:31

I will make your cities desolate and destroy your places of pagan worship. I will take no pleasure in your offerings that should be a pleasing aroma to me.

Zephaniah 3:18

“I will gather you who mourn for the appointed festivals; you will be disgraced no more.

Malachi 2:9

“So I have made you despised and humiliated in the eyes of all the people. For you have not obeyed me but have shown favoritism in the way you carry out my instructions.”