Lamentations 2:6 Cross References
Lamentations 2:6
6: He has broken down his Temple as though it were merely a garden shelter. The LORD has blotted out all memory of the holy festivals and Sabbath days. Kings and priests fall together before his anger.
Lamentations 1:4
- The roads to Jerusalem are in mourning, no longer filled with crowds on their way to celebrate the Temple festivals. The city gates are silent, her priests groan, her young women are crying--how bitterly Jerusalem weeps!
Zephaniah 3:18
- "I will gather you who mourn for the appointed festivals; you will be disgraced no more.
Lamentations 4:16
- The LORD himself has scattered them, and he no longer helps them. The priests and leaders are no longer honored and respected.
Ezekiel 12:12
- "Even Zedekiah will leave Jerusalem at night through a hole in the wall, taking only what he can carry with him. He will cover his face, and his eyes will never see his homeland again.
- Then I will spread out my net and capture him in my snare. I will bring him to Babylon, the land of the Babylonians, though he will never see it, and he will die there.
Isaiah 63:18
- How briefly your holy people possessed the holy place, and now our enemies have destroyed it.
Psalms 80:12
- But now, why have you broken down our walls so that all who pass may steal our fruit?
Isaiah 43:28
- That is why I have disgraced your priests and assigned Israel a future of complete destruction and shame.
Isaiah 1:13
- The incense you bring me is a stench in my nostrils! Your celebrations of the new moon and the Sabbath day, and your special days for fasting--even your most pious meetings--are all sinful and false. I want nothing more to do with them.
Jeremiah 52:11
- Then they gouged out Zedekiah's eyes, bound him in bronze chains, and led him away to Babylon. Zedekiah remained there in prison for the rest of his life.
- On August 17 of that year, which was the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar's reign, Nebuzaradan, captain of the guard, an official of the Babylonian king, arrived in Jerusalem.
- He burned down the Temple of the LORD, the royal palace, and all the houses of Jerusalem. He destroyed all the important buildings in the city.
- Then the captain of the guard supervised the entire Babylonian army as they tore down the walls of Jerusalem.
- Nebuzaradan, captain of the guard, then took as exiles some of the poorest of the people and those who remained in the city, along with the rest of the craftsmen and the troops who had declared their allegiance to the king of Babylon.
Lamentations 4:20
- Our king, the LORD's anointed, the very life of our nation, was caught in their snares. We had foolishly boasted that under his protection we could hold our own against any nation on earth!
Lamentations 5:12
- Our princes are being hanged by their thumbs, and the old men are treated with contempt.
Ezekiel 17:18
- For the king of Israel broke his treaty after swearing to obey; therefore, he will not escape.
Isaiah 5:5
- Now this is what I am going to do to my vineyard: I will tear down its fences and let it be destroyed. I will break down its walls and let the animals trample it.
Psalms 89:40
- You have broken down the walls protecting him and laid in ruins every fort defending him.
Malachi 2:9
- "So I have made you despised and humiliated in the eyes of all the people. For you have not obeyed me but have shown partiality in your interpretation of the law."
Isaiah 1:8
- Jerusalem stands abandoned like a watchman's shelter in a vineyard or field after the harvest is over. It is as helpless as a city under siege.
Isaiah 64:11
- The holy, beautiful Temple where our ancestors praised you has been burned down, and all the things of beauty are destroyed.