Bible Verses Like Lamentations 2:8

“The LORD hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion: he hath stretched out a line, he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying: therefore he made the rampart and the wall to lament; they languished together.”

 

Bible verses related to Lamentations 2:8 (similar cross-references)


2 Kings 21:13 - And I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and the plummet of the house of Ahab: and I will wipe Jerusalem as a man wipeth a dish, wiping it, and turning it upside down.   (Verses like 2 Kings 21:13)

Isaiah 3:26 - And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she being desolate shall sit upon the ground.   (Verses like Isaiah 3:26)

Isaiah 34:11 - But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness.   (Verses like Isaiah 34:11)

Jeremiah 14:2 - Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish; they are black unto the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.   (Verses like Jeremiah 14:2)

Jeremiah 5:10 - Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end: take away her battlements; for they are not the LORD'S.   (Verses like Jeremiah 5:10)

Amos 7:7-8 - Thus he shewed me: and, behold, the Lord stood upon a wall made by a plumbline, with a plumbline in his hand.And the LORD said unto me, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A plumbline. Then said the Lord, Behold, I will set a plumbline in the midst of my people Israel: I will not again pass by them any more:   (Verses like Amos 7:7)

2 Samuel 8:2 - And he smote Moab, and measured them with a line, casting them down to the ground; even with two lines measured he to put to death, and with one full line to keep alive. And so the Moabites became David's servants, and brought gifts.   (Verses like 2 Samuel 8:2)

Job 13:21 - Withdraw thine hand far from me: and let not thy dread make me afraid.   (Verses like Job 13:21)

Isaiah 5:5 - And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; and break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down:   (Verses like Isaiah 5:5)

Isaiah 28:17 - Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.   (Verses like Isaiah 28:17)

Lamentations 2:2 - The Lord hath swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and hath not pitied: he hath thrown down in his wrath the strong holds of the daughter of Judah; he hath brought them down to the ground: he hath polluted the kingdom and the princes thereof.   (Verses like Lamentations 2:2)

Lamentations 2:5 - The Lord was as an enemy: he hath swallowed up Israel, he hath swallowed up all her palaces: he hath destroyed his strong holds, and hath increased in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.   (Verses like Lamentations 2:5)

Lamentations 2:17 - The LORD hath done that which he had devised; he hath fulfilled his word that he had commanded in the days of old: he hath thrown down, and hath not pitied: and he hath caused thine enemy to rejoice over thee, he hath set up the horn of thine adversaries.   (Verses like Lamentations 2:17)

Ezekiel 20:22 - Nevertheless I withdrew mine hand, and wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted in the sight of the heathen, in whose sight I brought them forth.   (Verses like Ezekiel 20:22)