How has the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger! 1Ch 28:2Psa 132:7Ezk 28:14-16Lam 3:43-44Luk 10:18Rev 12:7-9Ezk 30:18Isa 14:12-15
He has cast the beauty of Israel down from heaven to the earth,
and hasn’t remembered his footstool in the day of his anger.
The Lord has swallowed up all the dwellings of Jacob Lam 2:17Lam 3:43Psa 89:39-40Isa 25:12Isa 43:28Psa 21:92Co 10:4Ezk 9:10
without pity.
He has thrown down in his wrath the strongholds of the daughter of Judah.
He has brought them down to the ground.
He has profaned the kingdom and its princes.
He has cut off all the horn of Israel in fierce anger. Psa 74:11Isa 42:25Psa 75:10Psa 75:5Jer 48:25Psa 79:5Psa 89:46Deu 32:22
He has drawn back his right hand from before the enemy.
He has burned up Jacob like a flaming fire,
which devours all around.
He has bent his bow like an enemy. Jer 7:20Ezk 24:25Isa 42:25Jer 21:5Job 6:4Lam 3:12-13Jer 30:14Nam 1:6
He has stood with his right hand as an adversary.
He has killed all that were pleasant to the eye.
In the tent of the daughter of Zion, he has poured out his wrath like fire.
The Lord has become as an enemy. Lam 2:22Ki 25:9Jer 30:14Jer 52:13Lam 2:42Ch 36:16-17Ezk 2:10Jer 15:1
He has swallowed up Israel.
He has swallowed up all her palaces.
He has destroyed his strongholds.
He has multiplied mourning and lamentation in the daughter of Judah.
He has violently taken away his tabernacle, Lam 1:4Zep 3:18Lam 4:16Ezk 12:12-13Ezk 17:18Isa 1:13Isa 1:8Isa 43:28
as if it were a garden.
He has destroyed his place of assembly.
The LORD has caused solemn assembly and Sabbath to be forgotten in Zion.
In the indignation of his anger, he has despised the king and the priest.
The Lord has cast off his altar. Amo 2:5Psa 74:3-8Ezk 24:21Ezk 7:20-22Jer 52:13Psa 78:59-612Ch 36:19Act 6:13-14
He has abhorred his sanctuary.
He has given the walls of her palaces into the hand of the enemy.
They have made a noise in the LORD’s house,
as in the day of a solemn assembly.
The LORD has purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion. 2Ki 21:13Isa 3:26Isa 34:11Jer 14:2Amo 7:7-8Jer 5:102Sa 8:2Ezk 20:22
He has stretched out the line.
He has not withdrawn his hand from destroying;
He has made the rampart and wall lament.
They languish together.
Her gates have sunk into the ground. Ezk 7:26Hos 3:42Ch 15:3Mic 3:6-7Neh 1:3Psa 74:9Amo 8:11-12Deu 28:36
He has destroyed and broken her bars.
Her king and her princes are among the nations where the law is not.
Yes, her prophets find no vision from the LORD.
The elders of the daughter of Zion sit on the ground. Isa 3:26Isa 15:3Job 2:12-13Amo 8:3Ezk 7:18Isa 47:1Jos 7:6Lam 1:1
They keep silence.
They have cast up dust on their heads.
They have clothed themselves with sackcloth.
The virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.
My eyes fail with tears. Lam 1:20Jer 4:19Job 16:13Lam 1:16Isa 22:4Lam 3:48-51Luk 23:29Psa 22:14
My heart is troubled.
My bile is poured on the earth,
because of the destruction of the daughter of my people,
because the young children and the infants swoon in the streets of the city.
They ask their mothers, Ezk 30:24Isa 53:12
“Where is grain and wine?”
when they swoon as the wounded in the streets of the city,
when their soul is poured out into their mothers’ bosom.
What shall I testify to you? Lam 1:122Sa 5:20Jer 14:17Jer 30:12-15Jer 8:22Dan 9:12Ezk 26:3-4Isa 37:22
What shall I liken to you, daughter of Jerusalem?
What shall I compare to you,
that I may comfort you, virgin daughter of Zion?
For your breach is as big as the sea.
Who can heal you?
Your prophets have seen false and foolish visions for you. Ezk 22:28Isa 58:1Jer 5:31Ezk 22:25Mic 3:5-7Jer 2:8Jer 8:10-112Pe 2:1-3
They have not uncovered your iniquity,
to reverse your captivity,
but have seen for you false revelations and causes of banishment.
All that pass by clap their hands at you. Jer 18:16Psa 48:2Ezk 25:6Jer 19:8Psa 50:2Isa 37:22Isa 64:11Mat 27:39
They hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying,
“Is this the city that men called ‘The perfection of beauty,
the joy of the whole earth’?”
All your enemies have opened their mouth wide against you. Psa 35:21Lam 3:46Psa 37:12Job 16:9-10Psa 56:2Jer 51:34Psa 124:3Psa 22:13
They hiss and gnash their teeth.
They say, “We have swallowed her up.
Certainly this is the day that we looked for.
We have found it.
We have seen it.”
The LORD has done that which he planned. Ezk 5:11Psa 89:42Deu 28:15-68Deu 31:16-17Ezk 7:8-9Ezk 8:18Lam 1:5Lam 2:1-2
He has fulfilled his word that he commanded in the days of old.
He has thrown down,
and has not pitied.
He has caused the enemy to rejoice over you.
He has exalted the horn of your adversaries.
Their heart cried to the Lord. Psa 119:145Jer 9:1Lam 1:16Lam 2:8Lam 3:48-49Psa 119:136Hos 7:14Hab 2:11
O wall of the daughter of Zion,
let tears run down like a river day and night.
Give yourself no relief.
Don’t let your eyes rest.
Arise, cry out in the night, Psa 62:8Isa 26:9Psa 119:147-148Psa 142:2Mrk 1:351Sa 1:15Psa 141:2Lam 2:11-12
at the beginning of the watches!
Pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord.
Lift up your hands toward him for the life of your young children,
who faint for hunger at the head of every street.
“Look, LORD, and see to whom you have done thus! Jer 19:9Lam 4:10Psa 78:64Deu 9:26Exo 32:11Lam 4:132Ki 6:28-29Deu 28:53-57
Should the women eat their offspring,
the children that they held and bounced on their knees?
Should the priest and the prophet be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?
“The youth and the old man lie on the ground in the streets. 2Ch 36:17Zec 11:6Jer 13:14Lam 3:43Jer 18:21Lam 1:15Lam 2:17Lam 2:2
My virgins and my young men have fallen by the sword.
You have killed them in the day of your anger.
You have slaughtered, and not pitied.
“You have called, as in the day of a solemn assembly, my terrors on every side. Jer 6:25Psa 31:13Isa 24:17-18Jer 16:2-4Jer 20:3Amo 9:1-4Deu 28:18Hos 9:12-16
There was no one that escaped or remained in the day of the LORD’s anger.
My enemy has consumed those whom I have cared for and brought up.