Lamentations 2:7

                                        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 

 

            I pray that God, the source of hope, will fill you completely 

        with joy and peace because you trust in him. Then you will overflow 

        with confident hope through the power of the Holy Spirit. Romans 15:13 

                                    🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏

 

The Lord has rejected his own altar;

    he despises his own sanctuary.

He has given Jerusalem's palaces

    to her enemies.

They shout in the LORD's Temple

    as though it were a day of celebration.

   

Ezekiel 7:20-26

"They were proud of their beautiful jewelry

    and used it to make detestable idols and vile images.

Therefore, I will make all their wealth

    disgusting to them.

I will give it as plunder to foreigners,

    to the most wicked of nations,

    and they will defile it.

I will turn my eyes from them

    as these robbers invade and defile my treasured land.

Prepare chains for my people,

    for the land is bloodied by terrible crimes.

    Jerusalem is filled with violence.

I will bring the most ruthless of nations

    to occupy their homes.

I will break down their proud fortresses

    and defile their sanctuaries.

Terror and trembling will overcome my people.

    They will look for peace but not find it.

Calamity will follow calamity;

    rumor will follow rumor.

They will look in vain

    for a vision from the prophets.

They will receive no teaching from the priests

    and no counsel from the leaders."  (see all Ezekiel 7)

 

Psalm 74:2-8  

Remember that we are the people you chose long ago,

    the tribe that you redeemed as your own special possession!

    And remember Jerusalem, your home here on earth.

Walk through the awful ruins of the city;

    see how the enemy has destroyed your sanctuary.

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) 

 

(parentheses are mine)

 

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