Lamentations 2:8

Tree of Life Version

Adonai resolved to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion. He stretched out a measuring line. He did not withdraw His hand from destroying. He caused rampart and wall to lament— together they languished away.

Cross References

2 Samuel 8:2

He also defeated Moab. He made them lie down on the ground and measured them with a cord. Every two measures of them were put to death, and the third measure was kept alive. So the Moabites became vassals to David, bringing tribute.

2 Kings 21:13

I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria and the plummet of the house of Ahab, and I will utterly wipe Jerusalem as one wipes a dish—wiping it and turning it upside down.

Job 13:21

withdraw Your hand far from me, and do not assail me with Your terror.

Isaiah 22:5

For my Lord Adonai-Tzva’ot has a day of panic, trampling and confusion— in the Valley of Vision— of tearing down a wall, a catastrophe on the mountain.

Isaiah 28:17

But I will make justice the measuring line and righteousness the plumb line. Hail will sweep away the refuge of lies, and water will overflow the hiding place.

Isaiah 3:26

Her gates will lament and mourn. Desolate, she will sit on the ground.

Isaiah 34:11

But pelican and porcupine will have it, owl and raven will dwell in it. He will stretch a line of chaos over it and stones of desolation.

Isaiah 5:5

So now, I will make known to you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge, and it will be eaten up. I will break down the fence, and it will be trodden down.

Jeremiah 14:2

Judah will mourn, and her gates languish. They will bow in black to the ground And Jerusalem’s wail will go up.

Jeremiah 5:10

Go up into her vines and ravage them, but do not completely destroy them. Strip away her branches for they are not Adonai’s.

Jeremiah 52:13

Then he burned the House of Adonai, the king’s house, and all the houses of Jerusalem. He burned every large house with fire.

Lamentations 2:17

Adonai has done what He planned; He has fulfilled His word that He commanded from days of old. He has overthrown you without pity, He enabled the enemy to gloat over you. He has exalted the horn of your foes.

Lamentations 2:18

Their heart cried out to the Lord: O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night. Give yourself no relief, your eyes no rest.

Lamentations 2:2

My Lord has mercilessly swallowed up all the dwellings of Jacob. He threw down the strongholds of the daughter of Judah in His fury. He knocked to the ground and humiliated the kingdom and its princes.

Lamentations 2:5

My Lord is like an enemy. He has swallowed up Israel. He swallowed up all her citadels, destroyed her fortifications and multiplied mourning and moaning for the daughter of Judah.

Ezekiel 20:22

Nevertheless, I withheld My hand. For the sake of My Name I did what would keep it from being profaned in the eyes of the nations in whose sight I had brought them out.