Psalm 89:40

Perplexity About God's Promises

³⁹ You have repudiated the covenant with Your servant;
You have completely dishonored his crown.
⁴⁰ You have broken down all his walls;
You have reduced his fortified cities to ruins.
⁴¹ All who pass by plunder him;
he has become an object of ridicule
to his neighbors.

Fortified Cities

Psalm 80:12

Why have You broken down its walls
so that all who pass by pick its fruit?

Lamentations 2:2

ב BetWithout compassion the Lord has swallowed up
all the dwellings of Jacob.
In His wrath He has demolished
the fortified cities of Daughter Judah.
He brought them to the ground
and defiled the kingdom and its leaders.

Lamentations 2:5

ה HeThe Lord is like an enemy;
He has swallowed up Israel.
He swallowed up all its palaces
and destroyed its fortified cities.
He has multiplied mourning and lamentation
within Daughter Judah.

2 Chronicles 12:2-5

Because they were unfaithful to the Lord, in the fifth year of King Rehoboam, Shishak king of Egypt went to war against Jerusalem

2 Chronicles 15:5

In those times there was no peace for those who went about their daily activities because the residents of the lands had many conflicts.

Job 1:10

Haven’t You placed a hedge around him, his household, and everything he owns? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land.

Isaiah 5:5-6

Now I will tell you
what I am about to do to My vineyard:
I will remove its hedge,
and it will be consumed;
I will tear down its wall,
and it will be trampled.

Revelation 13:1-7

And I saw a beast coming up out of the sea. He had 10 horns and seven heads. On his horns were 10 diadems, and on his heads were blasphemous names.