“The Lord has rejected his altar, he has disowned his sanctuary, and has given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces. They have made a shout in the house of the Lord, as in the day of a solemn assembly.”
Poetic mourning over Jerusalem's destruction.
Old Testament • Book #25
The Lord has become as an enemy; he has swallowed up Israel; he has swallowed up all her palaces and...
Lamentations 2:6He has done violence to his temple, as if it were a garden; he has destroyed his place of assembly. ...
Lamentations 2:8The Lord has determined to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion. He has stretched out the line, ...
Lamentations 2:9Her gates are sunk into the ground; he has destroyed and broken her bars. Her king and her princes a...
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