Lamentations 2:8

Yahweh decided to destroy the city wall of the daughter of Zion. 1 He has stretched out the measuring line and has not withheld his hand from destroying the wall. 1 He has made the ramparts and wall to lament; together they wasted away. 1

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The LORD hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion: he hath stretched out a line, he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying: therefore he made the rampart and the wall to lament; they languished together.

In Context

7The Lord has rejected his altar and disowned his sanctuary. 1 He has given over the walls of her palaces into the hand of the enemy. 1 They have raised a shout in the house of Yahweh, as on the day of an appointed feast. 1

9Her gates have sunk into the ground; he has destroyed and broken the bars of her gate. 1 Her king and her princes are among the nations, the law is no more 1 and her prophets find no vision from Yahweh. 1

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Cross References

2 Samuel 8:2Then he defeated Moab and measured their men with a line by making them lie down on the ground. He measured off two lines to put to death, and one full line to keep alive. So the Moabites became servants to David and began to pay him tribute.

Job 13:21withdraw your oppressive hand from me, 1 and do not let your terrors make me afraid. 1

Isaiah 5:5Now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will remove the hedge, 1 I will turn it into a pasture, I will break down its wall, and it will be trampled down. 1

Isaiah 28:17I will make justice the measuring stick, and righteousness the plumbline. 1 Hail will sweep away the refuge of lies, and the floodwaters will overwhelm the hiding place. 1

Jeremiah 5:10Go up onto her vineyards' terraces and destroy. But do not bring complete destruction to them. 1 Trim their vines, since those vines do not come from Yahweh. 1

Jeremiah 52:13He burned the house of Yahweh, the king's palace, and all the houses of Jerusalem; also every important building in the city he burned.

Matthew Henry on Lamentations 2:2-10

Cause, Extent, and Greatness of Zion's Calamities. ( b. c. 588.) 1 How 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! 2 The 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. 3 He… Read the whole commentary →

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