Lamentations 2:8

The Scriptures 1998

יהוה  has planned to destroy The wall of the daughter of Tsiyon. He has stretched out a line. He has not turned back His hand from destroying. And He has made the rampart and wall to lament; Together they have languished.

Cross References

2 Samuel 8:2

He also smote Mo’aḇ

2 Kings 21:13

‘And I shall stretch over Yerushalayim the measuring line of Shomeron and the plummet of the house of Aḥ

Job 13:21

Withdraw Your hand far from me, and let not dread of You make me afraid.

Isaiah 22:5

For it is a day of uproar and treading down and perplexity by the Master יהוה  of hosts in the Valley of Vision – breaking down of a wall and of crying to the mountain.

Isaiah 28:17

And I shall make right-ruling the measuring line, and righteousness the plummet. And the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lying, and the waters overflow the hiding place.

Isaiah 3:26

And her gates shall lament and mourn, and she, deserted, shall sit on the ground.

Isaiah 34:11

so that the pelican and the porcupine possess it, also the owl and the raven dwell in it. And He shall stretch out over it the line of formlessness and stones of emptiness.

Isaiah 5:5

“And now, please let Me inform you what I am doing to My vineyard: To take away its hedge and it shall be burned; to break down its wall and it shall be trampled down;

Jeremiah 14:2

“Yehuḏ

Jeremiah 5:10

“Go up on her walls and destroy, but do not make a complete end. Take away her branches, for they do not belong to יהוה.

Jeremiah 52:13

and he burned the House of יהוה, and the sovereign’s house, and all the houses of Yerushalayim, and all the houses of the great men, he burned with fire.

Lamentations 2:17

יהוה  has done what He planned, He has filled His word Which He commanded in days of old. He has torn down, without compassion, And He has let your enemy rejoice over you. He has exalted the horn of your adversaries.

Lamentations 2:18

Their heart cried out to יהוה, “O wall of the daughter of Tsiyon, Let tears run down like a river day and night. Give yourself no numbness, Let your eyes have no rest.

Lamentations 2:2

יהוה  has swallowed up, without compassion, All the pastures of Yaʽ

Lamentations 2:5

יהוה  has been like an enemy. He has swallowed up Yisra’ĕ

Ezekiel 20:22

“But I held back My hand and acted for My Name’s sake, not to profane it before the eyes of the gentiles, before whose eyes I had brought them out.