Lamentations 1:8-10 Part 2 of 2

                                 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 

 

Jerusalem has sinned greatly,

    so she has been tossed away like a filthy rag.

All who once honored her now despise her,

    for they have seen her stripped naked and humiliated.

All she can do is groan

    and hide her face.

She defiled herself with immorality

    and gave no thought to her future.

Now she lies in the gutter

    with no one to lift her out.

"LORD, see my misery," she cries.

    "The enemy has triumphed."

The enemy has plundered her completely,

    taking every precious thing she owns.

She has seen foreigners violate her sacred Temple,

    the place the LORD had forbidden them to enter. 

 

The enemy has plundered her completely, taking every precious thing she owns. She has seen foreigners violate her sacred Temple, the place the LORD had forbidden them to enter.

Psalm 74:4-8 

There your enemies shouted their victorious battle cries;

    there they set up their battle standards.

They swung their axes

    like woodcutters in a forest.

With axes and picks,

    they smashed the carved paneling.

They burned your sanctuary to the ground.

    They defiled the place that bears your name.

Then they thought, "Let's destroy everything!"

    So they burned down all the places where God was worshiped.  

    (see all Psalm 74)

Isaiah 64:10-11  

Your holy cities are destroyed.

    Zion is a wilderness;

    yes, Jerusalem is a desolate ruin.

The holy and beautiful Temple

    where our ancestors praised you

has been burned down, 

    and all the things of beauty are destroyed.  (see all Isaiah 64)

Jeremiah 51:51  

"We are ashamed," the people say.

    "We are insulted and disgraced

because the LORD's Temple

    has been defiled by foreigners."  (see Jeremiah 51:36-58)

Psalm 79:1  

O God, pagan nations have conquered your land,

    your special possession.

They have defiled your holy Temple

    and made Jerusalem a heap of ruins.  (see all Psalm 79) 

 

(parentheses are mine)

 

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