Cross references
Lamentations 2:5
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 has 9 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 3 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Lamentations 2:2 (5 votes) and 2 Kings 25:9 (4 votes). 36 other verses point back to it. It links with 14 other books, from Deuteronomy 32 to Zechariah 1.
Which verses does Lamentations 2:5 point to?
Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.
- Lamentations 2:25 votes
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.
- 2 Kings 25:94 votes
He burned down the house of the LORD, the royal palace, and all the houses of Jerusalem—every significant building.
- Jeremiah 30:144 votes
All your lovers have forgotten you; they no longer seek you, for I have struck you as an enemy would, with the discipline of someone cruel, because of your great iniquity and your numerous sins.
- Jeremiah 52:133 votes
He burned down the house of the LORD, the royal palace, and all the houses of Jerusalem—every significant building.
- Lamentations 2:43 votes
He has bent His bow like an enemy; His right hand is positioned. Like a foe He has killed all who were pleasing to the eye; He has poured out His wrath like fire on the tent of the Daughter of Zion.
- 2 Chronicles 36:16–172 votes
But they mocked the messengers of God, despising His words and scoffing at His prophets, until the wrath of the LORD against His people was stirred up beyond remedy. So He brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans, who put their young men to the sword in the sanctuary, sparing neither young men nor young women, neither elderly nor infirm. God gave them all into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar,
- Jeremiah 9:17–202 votes
This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Take note, and summon the wailing women; send for the most skillful among them. Let them come quickly and take up a lament over us, that our eyes may overflow with tears, and our eyelids may gush with water. …
- Jeremiah 15:12 votes
Then the LORD said to me: “Even if Moses and Samuel should stand before Me, My heart would not go out to this people. Send them from My presence, and let them go!
- Ezekiel 2:102 votes
which He unrolled before me. And written on the front and back of it were words of lamentation, mourning, and woe.
Which verses point to Lamentations 2:5?
The 10 strongest of 36.