Lamentations 2:7
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7 The Lord has scorned his altar,
disowned his sanctuary;
he has delivered into the hand of the enemy
the walls of her palaces;
a clamor was raised in the house of the Lord
as on a day of festival.(A)
Psalm 74:3-8
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3 Direct your steps to the perpetual ruins;
the enemy has destroyed everything in the sanctuary.(A)
4 Your foes have roared within your holy place;
they set up their emblems there.(B)
5 At the upper entrance they hacked
the wooden trellis with axes.[a](C)
6 And then, with hatchets and hammers,
they smashed all its carved work.
7 They set your sanctuary on fire;
they desecrated the dwelling place of your name,
bringing it to the ground.(D)
8 They said to themselves, “We will utterly subdue them”;
they burned all the meeting places of God in the land.(E)
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- 74.5 Cn Compare Gk Syr: Meaning of Heb uncertain
Amos 2:5
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5 So I will send a fire on Judah,
and it shall devour the strongholds of Jerusalem.(A)
Ezekiel 24:21
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21 Say to the house of Israel: Thus says the Lord God: I will profane my sanctuary, the pride of your power, the delight of your eyes, and your heart’s desire, and your sons and your daughters whom you left behind shall fall by the sword.(A)
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Ezekiel 7:20-22
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20 From their[a] beautiful ornament, in which they took pride, they made their abominable images, their detestable things; therefore I will make of it an unclean thing to them.(A)
21 I will hand it over to strangers as plunder,
to the wicked of the earth as spoil;
they shall profane it.(B)
22 I will avert my face from them
so that they may profane my treasured[b] place;
the violent shall enter it;
they shall profane it.(C)
Jeremiah 52:13
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13 He burned the house of the Lord, the king’s house, and all the houses of Jerusalem; every great house he burned down.(A)
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Psalm 78:59-61
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59 When God heard, he was full of wrath,
and he utterly rejected Israel.
60 He abandoned his dwelling at Shiloh,
the tent where he dwelt among mortals,(A)
61 and delivered his power to captivity,
his glory to the hand of the foe.(B)
Acts 6:13-14
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13 They set up false witnesses who said, “This man never stops saying things against this holy place and the law,(A) 14 for we have heard him say that this Jesus of Nazareth[a] will destroy this place and will change the customs that Moses handed on to us.”(B)
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- 6.14 Gk the Nazorean
Matthew 24:2
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2 Then he asked them, “You see all these, do you not? Truly I tell you, not one stone will be left here upon another; all will be thrown down.”(A)
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Micah 3:12
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12 Therefore because of you
Zion shall be plowed as a field;
Jerusalem shall become a heap of ruins,
and the mountain of the temple a wooded height.(A)
Ezekiel 7:24
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24 I will bring the worst of the nations
to take possession of their houses.
I will put an end to the arrogance of the strong,
and their holy places shall be profaned.(A)
Lamentations 2:5
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5 The Lord has become like an enemy;
he has destroyed Israel.
He has destroyed all its palaces,
laid in ruins its strongholds,
and multiplied in daughter Judah
mourning and lamentation.(A)
Lamentations 2:1
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2 How the Lord in his anger
has humiliated[a] daughter Zion!
He has thrown down from heaven to earth
the splendor of Israel;
he has not remembered his footstool
in the day of his anger.(A)
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- 2.1 Meaning of Heb uncertain
Jeremiah 39:8
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8 The Chaldeans burned with fire the king’s house and the houses of the people and broke down the walls of Jerusalem.(A)
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Jeremiah 33:3-5
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3 Call to me, and I will answer you and will tell you great and hidden things that you have not known.(A) 4 For thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, concerning the houses of this city and the houses of the kings of Judah that were torn down to make a defense against the siege ramps and before the sword:[a](B) 5 They are coming to fight the Chaldeans and to fill them with the dead bodies of those whom I shall strike down in my anger and my wrath, for I have hidden my face from this city because of all their wickedness.(C)
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- 33.4 Meaning of Heb uncertain
Jeremiah 32:29
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29 The Chaldeans who are fighting against this city shall come, set this city on fire, and burn it, with the houses on whose roofs offerings have been made to Baal and libations have been poured out to other gods, to provoke me to anger.(A)
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Jeremiah 26:18
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18 “Micah of Moresheth, who prophesied during the days of King Hezekiah of Judah, said to all the people of Judah: ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts,
Zion shall be plowed as a field;
Jerusalem shall become a heap of ruins
and the mountain of the house a wooded height.’(A)
Jeremiah 26:6
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6 then I will make this house like Shiloh, and I will make this city a curse for all the nations of the earth.(A)
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Jeremiah 7:12-14
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12 Go now to my place that was in Shiloh, where I made my name dwell at first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel.(A) 13 And now, because you have done all these things, says the Lord, and when I spoke to you persistently, you did not listen, and when I called you, you did not answer,(B) 14 therefore I will do to the house that is called by my name, in which you trust, and to the place that I gave to you and to your ancestors just what I did to Shiloh.(C)
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Isaiah 64:10-11
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10 Your holy cities have become a wilderness;
Zion has become a wilderness,
Jerusalem a desolation.(A)
11 Our holy and beautiful house,
where our ancestors praised you,
has been burned by fire,
and all our pleasant places have become ruins.(B)
Psalm 72:4-20
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4 May he defend the cause of the poor of the people,
give deliverance to the needy,
and crush the oppressor.(A)
5 May he live[a] while the sun endures
and as long as the moon, throughout all generations.(B)
6 May he be like rain that falls on the mown grass,
like showers that water the earth.(C)
7 In his days may righteousness flourish
and peace abound, until the moon is no more.(D)
8 May he have dominion from sea to sea
and from the River to the ends of the earth.(E)
9 May his foes[b] bow down before him,
and his enemies lick the dust.(F)
10 May the kings of Tarshish and of the isles
render him tribute;
may the kings of Sheba and Seba
bring gifts.(G)
11 May all kings fall down before him,
all nations give him service.
12 For he delivers the needy when they call,
the poor and those who have no helper.(H)
13 He has pity on the weak and the needy
and saves the lives of the needy.
14 From oppression and violence he redeems their life,
and precious is their blood in his sight.(I)
15 Long may he live!
May gold of Sheba be given to him.
May prayer be made for him continually
and blessings invoked for him all day long.(J)
16 May there be abundance of grain in the land;
may it wave on the tops of the mountains;
may its fruit be like Lebanon;
and may people blossom in the cities
like the grass of the field.(K)
17 May his name endure forever,
his fame continue as long as the sun.
May all nations be blessed in him;[c]
may they pronounce him happy.(L)
18 Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel,
who alone does wondrous things.(M)
19 Blessed be his glorious name forever;
may his glory fill the whole earth.
Amen and Amen.(N)
20 The prayers of David son of Jesse are ended.
2 Chronicles 36:19
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19 They burned the house of God, broke down the wall of Jerusalem, burned all its palaces with fire, and destroyed all its precious vessels.(A)
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Leviticus 26:44
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44 Yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not spurn them or abhor them so as to destroy them utterly and break my covenant with them, for I am the Lord their God,(A)
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Leviticus 26:31
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31 I will lay your cities waste, will make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will not smell your pleasing odors.(A)
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