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The Lord hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion: he hath stretched out a line, he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying: therefore he made the rampart and the wall to lament; they languished together.
Context
This verse from Lamentations Chapter 2 connects to 10 cross-references. God is described as an adversary who has swallowed up Israel without mercy, cast down the defenses of Judah, and burned up all the tents of Jacob like a flaming fire. The false prophets failed to expose Zion's iniquity. The …
Autres traductions
Jehovah hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion; He hath stretched out the line, he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying; And he hath made the rampart and wall to lament; they languish together.
Devised hath Jehovah to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion, He hath stretched out a line, He hath not turned His hand from destroying, And He causeth bulwark and wall to mourn, Together--they have been weak.
It is the Lord's purpose to make waste the wall of the daughter of Zion; his line has been stretched out, he has not kept back his hand from destruction: he has sent sorrow on tower and wall, they have become feeble together.
Références croisées
And he smote Moab, and measured them with a line, casting them down to the ground; even with two lines …
And I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and the plummet of the house of Ahab: and I …
Withdraw thine hand far from me: and let not thy dread make me afraid.
And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she being desolate shall sit upon the ground.
And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the …
Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the …
But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and …
Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end: take away her battlements; for they …
Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish; they are black unto the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone …
The Lord hath swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and hath not pitied: he hath thrown down in his …