Lamentations 2:7

The Lord rejected his altar and sanctuary and gave the temple walls to the enemy, who shouted within as if at a feast. It shows the holy place handed over to desecration.

Cross-references · 23

• Amos 2:5So I will send fire upon Judah to consume the citadels of Jerusalem.”
• Ps 74:3–8Turn Your steps to the everlasting ruins, to everything in the sanctuary the enemy has destroyed.
• Ezek 24:21Tell the house of Israel that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘I am about to desecrate My sanctuary, the pride of your power, the desire of your eyes, and the delight of your soul. And the sons and daughters you left behind will fall by the sword.’
• Jer 52:13He burned down the house of the LORD, the royal palace, and all the houses of Jerusalem—every significant building.
• Ezek 7:20–22His beautiful ornaments they transformed into pride and used them to fashion their vile images and detestable idols. Therefore I will make these into something unclean for them.
• Ps 78:59–61On hearing it, God was furious and rejected Israel completely.
• Jer 32:29And the Chaldeans who are fighting against this city will come in, set it on fire, and burn it, along with the houses of those who provoked Me to anger by burning incense to Baal on their rooftops and by pouring out drink offerings to other gods.
• Jer 7:12–14But go now to the place in Shiloh where I first made a dwelling for My Name, and see what I did to it because of the wickedness of My people Israel.
• Isa 64:10–11Your holy cities have become a wilderness. Zion has become a wasteland and Jerusalem a desolation.
• Jer 39:8The Chaldeans set fire to the palace of the king and to the houses of the people, and they broke down the walls of Jerusalem.
• 2 Chr 36:19Then the Chaldeans set fire to the house of God and broke down the wall of Jerusalem. They burned down all the palaces and destroyed every article of value.
• Ezek 7:24So I will bring the most wicked of nations to take possession of their houses. I will end the pride of the mighty, and their holy places will be profaned.
• Jer 26:18“Micah the Moreshite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah and told all the people of Judah that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble, and the temple mount a wooded ridge.’
• Matt 24:2“Do you see all these things?” He replied. “Truly I tell you, not one stone here will be left on another; every one will be thrown down.”
• Lev 26:31I will reduce your cities to rubble and lay waste your sanctuaries, and I will refuse to smell the pleasing aroma of your sacrifices.
• Acts 6:13–14where they presented false witnesses who said, “This man never stops speaking against this holy place and against the law.
• Lam 2:5The 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.
• Jer 33:3–5Call to Me, and I will answer and show you great and unsearchable things you do not know.
• Lev 26:44Yet in spite of this, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject or despise them so as to destroy them and break My covenant with them; for I am the LORD their God.
• Mic 3:12Therefore, because of you, Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble, and the temple mount a wooded ridge.
• Lam 2:1How the Lord has covered the Daughter of Zion with the cloud of His anger! He has cast the glory of Israel from heaven to earth. He has abandoned His footstool in the day of His anger.
• Ps 72:4–20May he vindicate the afflicted among the people; may he save the children of the needy and crush the oppressor.
• Jer 26:6then I will make this house like Shiloh, and I will make this city an object of cursing among all the nations of the earth.’”

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