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Lamentations 2

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1How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger, and cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel, and remembered not his footstool in the day of his anger! Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Chr 28:2Ps 132:7Ezek 28:14-16Lam 3:43-44Luke 10:18Rev 12:7-9Ezek 30:18Isa 14:12-15Joel 2:2Matt 11:23

2The Lord hath swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and hath not pitied: he hath thrown down in his wrath the strong holds of the daughter of Judah; he hath brought them down to the ground: he hath polluted the kingdom and the princes thereof. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Lam 2:17Lam 3:43Ps 89:39-40Isa 25:12Isa 43:28Ps 21:92 Cor 10:4Ezek 9:10Isa 26:5Lam 2:21

3He hath cut off in his fierce anger all the horn of Israel: he hath drawn back his right hand from before the enemy, and he burned against Jacob like a flaming fire, which devoureth round about. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Ps 74:11Isa 42:25Ps 75:10Ps 75:5Jer 48:25Ps 79:5Ps 89:46Deut 32:22Isa 1:31Jer 21:14

4He hath bent his bow like an enemy: he stood with his right hand as an adversary, and slew all that were pleasant to the eye in the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion: he poured out his fury like fire. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Jer 7:20Ezek 24:25Isa 42:25Jer 21:5Job 6:4Lam 3:12-13Jer 30:14Nah 1:62 Chr 34:212 Chr 34:25

5The Lord was as an enemy: he hath swallowed up Israel, he hath swallowed up all her palaces: he hath destroyed his strong holds, and hath increased in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Lam 2:22 Kgs 25:9Jer 30:14Jer 52:13Lam 2:42 Chr 36:16-17Ezek 2:10Jer 15:1Jer 9:17-20

6And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden: he hath destroyed his places of the assembly: the Lord hath caused the solemn feasts and sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion, and hath despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Lam 1:4Zeph 3:18Lam 4:16Ezek 12:12-13Ezek 17:18Isa 1:13Isa 1:8Isa 43:28Isa 5:5Isa 63:18

7The Lord hath cast off his altar, he hath abhorred his sanctuary, he hath given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces; they have made a noise in the house of the Lord, as in the day of a solemn feast. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Amos 2:5Ps 74:3-8Ezek 24:21Ezek 7:20-22Jer 52:13Ps 78:59-612 Chr 36:19Acts 6:13-14Ezek 7:24Isa 64:10-11

8The Lord hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion: he hath stretched out a line, he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying: therefore he made the rampart and the wall to lament; they languished together. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Kgs 21:13Isa 3:26Isa 34:11Jer 14:2Amos 7:7-8Jer 5:102 Sam 8:2Ezek 20:22Isa 28:17Isa 5:5

9Her gates are sunk into the ground; he hath destroyed and broken her bars: her king and her princes are among the Gentiles: the law is no more; her prophets also find no vision from the Lord. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Ezek 7:26Hos 3:42 Chr 15:3Mic 3:6-7Neh 1:3Ps 74:9Amos 8:11-12Deut 28:36Jer 51:302 Kgs 24:12-16

10The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, and keep silence: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Isa 3:26Isa 15:3Job 2:12-13Amos 8:3Ezek 7:18Isa 47:1Josh 7:6Lam 1:1Lam 1:4Lam 3:28

11Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Lam 1:20Jer 4:19Job 16:13Lam 1:16Isa 22:4Lam 3:48-51Luke 23:29Ps 22:14Ps 6:7Lam 2:19-20

12They say to their mothers, Where is corn and wine? when they swooned as the wounded in the streets of the city, when their soul was poured out into their mothers’ bosom. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Ezek 30:24Isa 53:12

13What thing shall I take to witness for thee? what thing shall I liken to thee, O daughter of Jerusalem? what shall I equal to thee, that I may comfort thee, O virgin daughter of Zion? for thy breach is great like the sea: who can heal thee? Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Lam 1:122 Sam 5:20Jer 14:17Jer 30:12-15Jer 8:22Dan 9:12Ezek 26:3-4Isa 37:22Jer 51:8-9Ps 60:2

14Thy prophets have seen vain and foolish things for thee: and they have not discovered thine iniquity, to turn away thy captivity; but have seen for thee false burdens and causes of banishment. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Ezek 22:28Isa 58:1Jer 5:31Ezek 22:25Mic 3:5-7Jer 2:8Jer 8:10-112 Pet 2:1-3Ezek 13:2-16Ezek 13:22

15All that pass by clap their hands at thee; they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city that men call The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth? Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Jer 18:16Ps 48:2Ezek 25:6Jer 19:8Ps 50:2Isa 37:22Isa 64:11Matt 27:39Ps 22:7Zeph 2:15

16All thine enemies have opened their mouth against thee: they hiss and gnash the teeth: they say, We have swallowed her up: certainly this is the day that we looked for; we have found, we have seen it. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Ps 35:21Lam 3:46Ps 37:12Job 16:9-10Ps 56:2Jer 51:34Ps 124:3Ps 22:13Ps 35:16Acts 7:54

17The Lord hath done that which he had devised; he hath fulfilled his word that he had commanded in the days of old: he hath thrown down, and hath not pitied: and he hath caused thine enemy to rejoice over thee, he hath set up the horn of thine adversaries. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Ezek 5:11Ps 89:42Deut 28:15-68Deut 31:16-17Ezek 7:8-9Ezek 8:18Lam 1:5Lam 2:1-2Lev 26:14-46Deut 29:18-23

18Their heart cried unto the Lord, O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night: give thyself no rest; let not the apple of thine eye cease. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Ps 119:145Jer 9:1Lam 1:16Lam 2:8Lam 3:48-49Ps 119:136Hos 7:14Hab 2:11Isa 26:16-17Jer 13:17

19Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out thine heart like water before the face of the Lord: lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger in the top of every street. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Ps 62:8Isa 26:9Ps 119:147-148Ps 142:2Mark 1:351 Sam 1:15Ps 141:2Lam 2:11-12Judg 7:19Luke 6:12

20Behold, O Lord, and consider to whom thou hast done this. Shall the women eat their fruit, and children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord? Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Jer 19:9Lam 4:10Ps 78:64Deut 9:26Exod 32:11Lam 4:132 Kgs 6:28-29Deut 28:53-57Ezek 5:10Ezek 9:5-6

21The young and the old lie on the ground in the streets: my virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword; thou hast slain them in the day of thine anger; thou hast killed, and not pitied. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Chr 36:17Zech 11:6Jer 13:14Lam 3:43Jer 18:21Lam 1:15Lam 2:17Lam 2:21 Sam 15:3Amos 4:10

22Thou hast called as in a solemn day my terrors round about, so that in the day of the Lord’s anger none escaped nor remained: those that I have swaddled and brought up hath mine enemy consumed. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Jer 6:25Ps 31:13Isa 24:17-18Jer 16:2-4Jer 20:3Amos 9:1-4Deut 28:18Hos 9:12-16Jer 46:5Luke 23:29-30

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