Quotes about Destruction
Without pity the Lord has swallowed up all the dwellings of Jacob. In His wrath He has demolished the fortified cities of the Daughter of Judah. He brought to the ground and defiled her kingdom and its princes.
— Lamentations 2:2
In fierce anger He has cut off every horn of Israel and withdrawn His right hand at the approach of the enemy. He has burned in Jacob like a flaming fire that consumes everything around it.
— Lamentations 2:3
The Lord is like an enemy; He has swallowed up Israel. He has swallowed up all her palaces and destroyed her strongholds. He has multiplied mourning and lamentation for the Daughter of Judah.
— Lamentations 2:5
He has laid waste His tabernacle like a garden booth; He has destroyed His place of meeting. The LORD has made Zion forget her appointed feasts and Sabbaths. In His fierce anger He has despised both king and priest.
— Lamentations 2:6
The LORD determined to destroy the wall of the Daughter of Zion. He stretched out a measuring line and did not withdraw His hand from destroying. He made the ramparts and walls lament; together they waste away.
— Lamentations 2:8
Her gates have sunk into the ground; He has destroyed and shattered their bars. Her king and her princes are exiled among the nations, the law is no more, and even her prophets find no vision from the LORD.
— Lamentations 2:9
My eyes fail from weeping; I am churning within. My heart is poured out in grief over the destruction of the daughter of my people, because children and infants faint in the streets of the city.
— Lamentations 2:11
You summoned my attackers on every side, as for the day of an appointed feast. In the day of the LORD’s anger no one escaped or survived; my enemy has destroyed those I nurtured and reared.
— Lamentations 2:22
He has worn away my flesh and skin; He has shattered my bones.
— Lamentations 3:4
Panic and pitfall have come upon us—devastation and destruction.
— Lamentations 3:47
Streams of tears flow from my eyes over the destruction of the daughter of my people.
— Lamentations 3:48
The hands of compassionate women have cooked their own children, who became their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
— Lamentations 4:10