Lamentations 2 Cross References - Ottley

¹² How is Lucifer, that riseth early, fallen out of heaven! he is crushed into the earth, that sent forth unto all the nations. ¹³ But thou saidst in thy heart, Up to heaven will I go, above the stars of heaven will I set my throne; I will sit on a high mountain, above the high hills toward the north, ¹⁴ I will go up above the clouds, I will be like the most High. ¹⁵ But now shalt thou go down into hell, and into the foundations of the earth.

¹¹ Is the house, our holy place: and the glory which our fathers blessed is burnt with fire, and all (our) glorious things are fallen together.

⁹ The Lord of Hosts hath counselled to undo the pride of the honourable ones, and to disgrace all that is honourable upon the earth.

¹² And the height of the refuge of thy wall shall be humble, and it shall come down, even unto the ground.

⁵ Who didst humble and bring down them that dwelt in high places; strong cities shalt thou throw down, and bring down to the ground,

¹¹ And after a time there shall not be in her any green thing, because of its drying up. Ye women that come from a spectacle, come hither; for it is not a people that hath understanding; therefore he that made them shall not pity, nor shall he that formed them have mercy.

²⁸ And the rulers defiled my holy things; and I gave Jacob over to destroy (him) and Israel for a reproach.

⁶ I was provoked at my people, thou defiledst mine inheritance: I gave (them) into thine hand, and thou showedst them no mercy; thou didst make the yoke of the elder very heavy.

³¹ And their strength shall be as a stalk of flax, and their works as sparks of fire, and the transgressors and the sinners shall be burned up together, and there shall be none that shall quench them.

²⁵ And he brought upon them the fury of his wrath, and war overpowered them, and they that set them on fire round about, and they understood not, each of them, neither laid it to heart.

¹⁷ Awake, awake, stand up, Jerusalem, that hast drunk the cup of wrath from the hand of the Lord; for thou didst drink, and didst empty out the cup of falling, the goblet of (his) wrath. ¹⁸ And there was none that comforted thee from among all thy children that thou broughtest forth; and there was none that took hold of thy hand from among all thy sons whom thou didst raise up. ¹⁹ These two things are against thee; who shall grieve with thee? ruin and destruction, famine and sword: who shall comfort thee? ²⁰ Thy sons are they that are helpless, that lie down at the head of every passage way like sodden herbs; that are full of the wrath of the Lord, that are undone through the Lord God.

⁶ And I trampled them down with my anger, and brought down their blood to the earth.

¹⁰ But they disobeyed, and provoked the holy Spirit; and he was turned to enmity against them, himself fought against them.

⁸ The daughter of Zion shall be left like a booth in a vineyard, and like a watching-hut in a cucumber garden, like a city besieged.

¹³ Ye shall not, any more; if ye bring me fine flour, it is vain; incense, it is an abomination to me; your new moons, and the sabbaths, and a great day, I cannot bear: fasting and idleness,

⁵ But now I will declare to you what I will do to my vineyard; I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be plundered; and destroy the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down;

¹⁸ That we may inherit a little of thy holy mountain: our adversaries trode down thy sanctuary.

¹⁰ Thy city of the Holy One, Zion, is become desert; Jerusalem is become as a desert: turned to a curse ¹¹ Is the house, our holy place: and the glory which our fathers blessed is burnt with fire, and all (our) glorious things are fallen together.

²⁶ And the coffers of your ornaments shall mourn, and thou shalt be left alone, and shalt be trodden into the earth.

¹⁷ And I will set judgment for a hope, and my mercy shall be for balances; and ye who vainly trust in a lie—for the tempest shall not pass you by,

¹¹ And birds, and hedgehogs, and ibises, and ravens shall dwell therein; and there shall be cast over it the measuring line of desolation, and satyrs shall dwell therein.

³ In her highways gird yourselves with sackcloth, and smite yourselves on her housetops and in her highways and in her streets; wail, all of you, with weeping.

²² And Ehakim, the son of Hilkiah, the steward, went in, and Shebna the scribe of the power, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder, unto Hezekiah, with their clothes rent, and reported unto him the words of Rabshakeh.

¹ Come down, sit upon the ground, virgin daughter of Babylon; enter into the darkness, daughter of the Chaldaeans, for no longer shalt thou be any more called tender and delicate.

⁵ Sit down in amazement, enter into the darkness, daughter of the Chaldaeans: no longer shalt thou be called the strength of a kingdom.

⁴ Therefore I said, Let me go, I will weep bitterly; persist not to comfort me, for the blow of the daughter of my race.

¹⁴ As a swallow, so will I cry, and as a dove, so will I rehearse it; for mine eyes have failed from looking up to the height of heaven to the Lord, who rescued me, and took away the anguish of my soul.

¹² Therefore he shall make many to inherit, and the spoils of the mighty shall he divide; because his soul was given over unto death; and he was reckoned among the transgressors; and himself bare the sins of many, and was given over because of their sins.

²² This is the word which God hath spoken concerning him; The virgin daughter of Zion despiseth thee and mocketh thee; the daughter of Jerusalem shaketh her head at thee.

¹⁵ Anda prophet that teacheth transgressions; he is the tail. ¹⁶ And they that call this people happy shall be causing them to err, and they cause them to err, that they may swallow them up.

¹ Cry out with strength, and spare not, lift up thy voice as a trumpet, and declare to thy people their sins, and to the house of Jacob their transgressions.

¹⁹ For thy desolate, and destroyed, and fallen places, shall now be narrow by reason of thine inhabitants; and they that swallowed thee up shall be far removed from thee.

¹⁶ Lord, in affliction I remembered thee, in slight affliction (was) thy correction upon us. ¹⁷ And as she who travaileth draweth near to bring forth, and crieth out in her travail, so were we before thy beloved.

⁹ Which our soul longeth for. [A Song.] Out of the night doth my spirit rise early toward thee, O God, because thy commandments are a light upon the earth. Learn righteousness, ye that dwell on the earth,

²⁰ Thy sons are they that are helpless, that lie down at the head of every passage way like sodden herbs; that are full of the wrath of the Lord, that are undone through the Lord God.

¹⁴ And the Lord hath taken away from Israel head and tail, great and small, in one day; an elder, and respecters of persons; this is the beginning, ¹⁵ Anda prophet that teacheth transgressions; he is the tail. ¹⁶ And they that call this people happy shall be causing them to err, and they cause them to err, that they may swallow them up. ¹⁷ Therefore God shall not rejoice over the young men, and on their fatherless and widows shall he not have mercy; for they are all transgressors and wicked, and every mouth speaketh unjustly. For all this his wrath is not turned away, but his hand is still upraised.

¹⁶ Thou art our father; for Abraham knew us not, and Israel recognized us not; but thou, Lord, art our father; deliver us, thy name is among us from the beginning. ¹⁷ Why didst thou make us to wander, Lord, from thy way? didst harden our hearts, that we should not fear thee? turn unto us, for the sake of thy bondmen, for the sake of the tribes of thine inheritance, ¹⁸ That we may inherit a little of thy holy mountain: our adversaries trode down thy sanctuary. ¹⁹ We are become as at the beginning, when thou didst not rule over us, neither was thy name called upon us.

⁸ And now, O Lord, thou art our father; and we are clay, all (are) the works of thy hands. ⁹ Be not wroth with us exceedingly, and remember not all our sins betimes; and now look upon us, for we are all thy people. ¹⁰ Thy city of the Holy One, Zion, is become desert; Jerusalem is become as a desert: turned to a curse ¹¹ Is the house, our holy place: and the glory which our fathers blessed is burnt with fire, and all (our) glorious things are fallen together. ¹² And for all this thou didst refrain, O Lord, and heldest thy peace, and didst humble us exceedingly.

¹⁷ Fear, and a pit, and a snare, are upon you that dwell upon the earth. ¹⁸ And it shall be, he that fleeth from the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh out from the pit shall be caught by the snare; for windows are opened out of heaven, and the foundations of the earth shall be shaken.