The Lord is like an enemy; He has swallowed up Israel. He has swallowed up all her palaces and destroyed her strongholds. He has multiplied mourning and lamentation for the Daughter of Judah. Cross References Job 13:24 Why do You hide Your face and consider me as Your enemy? Psalm 89:40 You have broken down all his walls; You have reduced his strongholds to rubble. Isaiah 29:2 And I will constrain Ariel, and there will be mourning and lamentation; she will be like an altar hearth before Me. Jeremiah 9:17 This is what the LORD of Hosts says: "Take note, and summon the wailing women; send for the most skillful among them. Jeremiah 21:4 this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: 'I will turn against you the weapons of war in your hands, with which you are fighting the king of Babylon and the Chaldeans who besiege you outside the wall, and I will assemble their forces in the center of this city. Jeremiah 30:14 All your lovers have forgotten you; they no longer seek you, for I have struck you as an enemy would, with the discipline of someone cruel, because of your great iniquity and your numerous sins. Jeremiah 52:13 He burned down the house of the LORD, the royal palace, and all the houses of Jerusalem--every significant building. Lamentations 2:2 Without pity the Lord has swallowed up all the dwellings of Jacob. In His wrath He has demolished the fortified cities of the Daughter of Judah. He brought to the ground and defiled her kingdom and its princes. Treasury of Scripture The LORD was as an enemy: he has swallowed up Israel, he has swallowed up all her palaces: he has destroyed his strong holds, and has increased in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation. was Lamentations 2:4 Jeremiah 15:1 Jeremiah 30:14 he hath swallowed up Israel Lamentations 2:2 2 Kings 25:9 2 Chronicles 36:16,17 mourning Ezekiel 2:10 |