Lamentations 1:5-7 Part 2 of 3

                                   LAMENTATIONS

                         The faithful love of the LORD never ends! 

                                     His mercies never cease.

                                    Great is his faithfulness;

                            his mercies begin afresh each morning.

                                        Lamentations 3:22-23 

 

Her oppressors have become her masters,

    and her enemies prosper,

for the LORD has punished Jerusalem

    for her many sins.

Her children have been captured

    and taken away to distant lands.

All the majesty of beautiful Jerusalem

    has been stripped away.

Her princes are like starving deer

    searching for pasture.

They are too weak to run 

    from the pursuing enemy.

In the midst of her sadness and wandering,

    Jerusalem remembers her ancient splendor.

But now she has fallen to her enemy,

    and there is no one to help her.

Her enemy struck her down

    and laughed as she fell. 

 

All the majesty of beautiful Jerusalem has been stripped away. Her princes are like starving deer searching for pasture. They are too weak to run from the pursuing enemy.

2 Kings 24:13

As the LORD had said beforehand, Nebuchadnezzar carried away all the treasures from the LORD's Temple and the royal palace. He stripped away all the gold objects that King Solomon of Israel had placed in the Temple.  

(see 2 Kings 24:1-7)

2 Kings 25:9-10  

He (Nebuzaradan) burned down the Temple of the LORD, the royal palace, and all the houses of Jerusalem. He destroyed all the important buildings in the city.  (see 2 Kings 25:1-22)

Jeremiah 4:31  

I hear a cry, like that of a woman in labor,

    the groans of a woman giving birth to her first child.

It is beautiful Jerusalem

    gasping for breath and crying out,

    "Help! I'm being murdered!"  (see Jeremiah 4:3-31)

Jeremiah 9:11  

"I will make Jerusalem into a heap of ruins," says the LORD.

    "It will be a place haunted by jackals.

The towns of Judah will be ghost towns,

    with no one living in them."  (see Jeremiah 9:1-16)

Jeremiah 25:8-9  

And now the LORD of Heaven's Armies says: Because you have not listened to me, I will gather together all the armies of the north under King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, whom I have appointed as my deputy. I will bring them all against this land and its people and against the surrounding nations. I will completely destroy you and make you an object of horror and contempt and a ruin forever."  (see Jeremiah 25:1-14)

Jeremiah 39:8  

    Meanwhile, the Babylonians burned Jerusalem, including the royal palace and the houses of the people, and they tore down the walls of the city.  

(see Jeremiah 39:1-10) 

 

(parentheses are mine)

 

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