Lamentations 2:8
The Lord determined to destroy the wall of the Daughter of Zion. He stretched out a measuring line and did not withdraw His hand from destroying. He made the ramparts and walls lament; together they waste away.
The Lord hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion: he hath stretched out a line, he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying: therefore he made the rampart and the wall to lament; they languished together.
Note destroying: Heb. swallowing up
The Lord has purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion. 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 He has not withdrawn his hand from destroying; He has made the rampart and wall lament.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.
Jehovah hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion; He hath stretched out the line, he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying; And he hath made the rampart and wall to lament; they languish together.
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Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- purposed
- Lamentations 2:17; Isaiah 5:5; Jeremiah 5:10
- stretched
- 2 Samuel 8:2; 2 Kings 21:13; Isaiah 28:17; Isaiah 34:11; Amos 7:7, 8
- he hath not
- Job 13:21; Ezekiel 20:22
- destroying
- Heb. swallowing up.
- Lamentations 2:2, 5
- he made
- Isaiah 3:26; Jeremiah 14:2