Lamentations 2:8 meaning and explanation
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, Berean Standard Bible
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The speaker is the poet of Lamentations, mourning Jerusalem after Babylon destroyed the city and its temple in 586 BC. In this verse he names the LORD himself as the agent of the wall's ruin, not merely the Babylonians.
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