Lamentations 2:8

Wycliffe's Bible with Modern Spelling

The Lord thought to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion; he stretched forth his cord, and turned not away his hand from perdition; the forewall, either the outerward, mourned, and the wall was destroyed altogether.

Cross References

2 Samuel 8:2

And David smote Moab, and meted them with a cord, and he made them even to the earth; forsooth he meted them by two cords, one to slay, and one to quicken. And Moab served David under tribute.

2 Kings 21:13

and I shall hold forth upon Jerusalem the cord of Samaria, and the burden of the house of Ahab, and I shall do away Jerusalem, as tables be wont to be done away; and I shall do away and overturn it, and I shall lead full oft a pointel upon the face thereof.

Job 13:21

Make thine hand far from me; and thy dread make not me afeared.

Isaiah 22:5

For why a day of slaying, and of defouling, and of weepings, is ordained of the Lord God of hosts, in the valley of vision; and he searcheth the wall, and is worshipful on the hill [or the mountain].

Isaiah 28:17

And I shall set doom in weight, and rightfulness [or rightwiseness] in measure; and hail shall destroy the hope of leasing, and waters shall flow on protection.

Isaiah 3:26

And the gates thereof shall wail, and mourn; and it shall sit desolate in [the] earth.

Isaiah 34:11

And an onocrotalus, and an urchin, shall wield it; and a capret, and a crow shall dwell therein; and a measure shall be stretched forth thereon, that it be driven to nought, and an hanging plummet into desolation.

Isaiah 5:5

And now I shall show to you, what I shall do to my vinery [or vineyard]. I shall take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be into ravishing; I shall cast down the wall thereof, and it shall be into defouling;

Jeremiah 14:2

Judah wailed, and the gates thereof fell down, and be made dark in [the] earth, and the cry of Jerusalem went up.

Jeremiah 5:10

Go ye up on the walls thereof, and destroy ye; but do not ye make an ending. Do ye away the scions thereof, for they be not servants of the Lord.

Jeremiah 52:13

And he burnt the house of the Lord, and the house of the king, and all the houses of Jerusalem; and he burnt with fire each great house.

Lamentations 2:17

The Lord did those things which he thought, he [ful] filled his word which he had commanded from [the] eld [or old] days; he destroyed, and spared not; and made glad the enemy on thee; and enhanced the horn of thine enemies.

Lamentations 2:18

The heart of them cried to the Lord, on the walls of the daughter of Zion; lead thou forth tears as a strand [or a stream], by day and night; give thou not rest to thee, neither the apple of thine eye be still.

Lamentations 2:2

The Lord casted down, and spared not, all the fair things of Jacob; he destroyed in his strong vengeance the strengths or strongholds of the virgin of Judah, and casted down into [the] earth; he defouled the realm, and the princes thereof.

Lamentations 2:5

The Lord is made as an enemy; he casted down Israel, he casted down all the walls thereof; he des-troyed the strengths thereof, and filled in the daughter of Judah a man made low, and a woman made low.

Ezekiel 20:22

But I turned away mine hand, and I did this for my name, that it were not defouled before heathen men, from which I casted them out before the eyes of those [or them].