Jeremiah 22:8

A Series Of Messages For The House Of The King Of Judah

⁷ I will appoint destroyers against you,
each with his weapons.
They will cut down the choicest of your cedars
and throw them into the fire. ⁸ “Many nations will pass by this city and ask one another, ‘Why did the Lord do such a thing to this great city?’ ⁹ They will answer, ‘Because they abandoned the covenant of Yahweh their God and worshiped and served other gods.’”

Great City

Jehovah

1 Kings 9:8-9

Though this temple is now exalted, everyone who passes by will be appalled and will mock. They will say: Why did the Lord do this to this land and this temple?

2 Chronicles 7:20-22

then I will uproot Israel from the soil that I gave them, and this temple that I have sanctified for My name I will banish from My presence; I will make it an object of scorn and ridicule among all the peoples.

Deuteronomy 29:23-26

All its soil will be a burning waste of sulfur and salt, unsown, producing nothing, with no plant growing on it, just like the fall of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the Lord demolished in His fierce anger.

Jeremiah 16:10

“When you tell these people all these things, they will say to you, ‘Why has the Lord declared all this great disaster against us? What is our guilt? What is our sin that we have committed against the Lord our God?’

Lamentations 2:15-17

ס SamekAll who pass by
scornfully clap their hands at you.
They mock and shake their heads
at Daughter Jerusalem:
Is this the city that was called
the perfection of beauty,
the joy of the whole earth?

Lamentations 4:12

ל LamedThe kings of the earth
and all the world’s inhabitants did not believe
that an enemy or adversary
could enter Jerusalem’s gates.

Daniel 9:7

Lord, righteousness belongs to You, but this day public shame belongs to us: the men of Judah, the residents of Jerusalem, and all Israel—those who are near and those who are far, in all the countries where You have dispersed them because of the disloyalty they have shown toward You.