The adversary has seized all her treasures. For she has seen the nations enter her sanctuary—those You had forbidden to enter Your assembly.
Parallel translations
- WEB The adversary has spread out his hand on all her pleasant things: for she has seen that the nations are entered into her sanctuary, concerning whom you commanded that they should not enter into your assembly.
- KJV The adversary hath spread out his hand upon all her pleasant things: for she hath seen that the heathen entered into her sanctuary, whom thou didst command that they should not enter into thy congregation.
- NKJV The adversary has spread his hand Over all her pleasant things; For she has seen the nations enter her sanctuary, Those whom You commanded Not to enter Your assembly.
- NASB The adversary has stretched out his hand Over all her precious things, For she has seen the nations enter her sanctuary, The ones whom You commanded That they were not to enter Your congregation.
- NLT The enemy has plundered her completely, taking every precious thing she owns. She has seen foreigners violate her sacred Temple, the place the Lord had forbidden them to enter.
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Quick answer
The enemy has plundered the temple, entering the sanctuary God had forbidden to foreigners. It marks the deepest violation: the desecration of God's holy place.
Overview
The adversary's hand on Jerusalem's 'pleasant things' climaxes in the violation of the sanctuary, where the nations were never to enter the assembly (Deuteronomy 23:3). This profaning of the holy place is the supreme outrage of the conquest. It heightens the longing for a true and undefiled temple, fulfilled in Christ, whose body is the temple raised up forever (John 2:19-21).
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Cross-references · 17
- Deut 23:3No Ammonite or Moabite or any of their descendants may enter the assembly of the LORD, even to the tenth generation.
- Jer 51:51“We are ashamed because we have heard reproach; disgrace has covered our faces, because foreigners have entered the holy places of the LORD’s house.”
- Lam 1:7In the days of her affliction and wandering Jerusalem remembers all the treasures that were hers in days of old. When her people fell into enemy hands she received no help. Her enemies looked upon her, laughing at her downfall.
- Neh 13:1At that time the Book of Moses was read aloud in the hearing of the people, and in it they found the passage stating that no Ammonite or Moabite should ever enter the assembly of God,
- Ps 74:4–8Your foes have roared within Your meeting place; they have unfurled their banners as signs,
- Isa 64:10–11Your holy cities have become a wilderness. Zion has become a wasteland and Jerusalem a desolation.
- Jer 52:13He burned down the house of the LORD, the royal palace, and all the houses of Jerusalem—every significant building.
- Jer 52:17–20Moreover, the Chaldeans broke up the bronze pillars and stands and the bronze Sea in the house of the LORD, and they carried all the bronze to Babylon.
- Ezek 7:22I will turn My face away from them, and they will defile My treasured place. Violent men will enter it, and they will defile it.
- Jer 20:5I will give away all the wealth of this city—all its products and valuables, and all the treasures of the kings of Judah—to their enemies. They will plunder them, seize them, and carry them off to Babylon.
- Isa 5:13–14Therefore My people will go into exile for their lack of understanding; their dignitaries are starving and their masses are parched with thirst.
- Jer 15:13Your wealth and your treasures I will give up as plunder, without charge for all your sins within all your borders.
- Isa 63:18For a short while Your people possessed Your holy place, but our enemies have trampled Your sanctuary.
- Ezek 44:7In addition to all your other abominations, you brought in foreigners uncircumcised in both heart and flesh to occupy My sanctuary; you defiled My temple when you offered My food—the fat and the blood; you broke My covenant.
- Mark 13:14So when you see the abomination of desolation standing where it should not be (let the reader understand), then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.
- Ezek 9:7Then He told them, “Defile the temple and fill the courts with the slain. Go forth!” So they went out and began killing throughout the city.
- Ps 79:1–7A Psalm of Asaph. The nations, O God, have invaded Your inheritance; they have defiled Your holy temple and reduced Jerusalem to rubble.
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