1 Kings 9:8
8And this house will become a heap of ruins. ▼▼Syriac, Old Latin; Hebrew will become high
Everyone passing by it will be astonished and will hiss, and they will say, b‘Why has the Lord done thus to this land and to this house?’ 2 Chronicles 36:19
19 cAnd they burned the house of God and broke down the wall of Jerusalem and burned all its palaces with fire and destroyed all its precious vessels.Psalms 74:3-7
3Direct your steps to dthe perpetual ruins;the enemy has destroyed everything in the sanctuary!
4 Your foes have eroared in the midst of your meeting place;
fthey set up their gown signs for hsigns.
5They were like those who swing iaxes
in a forest of trees. ▼
▼The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain
6And all its kcarved wood
they broke down with hatchets and hammers.
7They lset your sanctuary on fire;
they mprofaned nthe dwelling place of your name,
bringing it down to the ground.
Psalms 79:1
How Long, O Lord?
A Psalm of oAsaph.
1 O God, pthe nations have come into your qinheritance;they have defiled your rholy temple;
they have slaid Jerusalem in ruins.
Isaiah 64:10-11
10 tYour holy cities have become a wilderness;Zion has become a wilderness,
Jerusalem a desolation.
11 uOur holy and beautiful ▼
▼Or holy and glorious
house,where our fathers praised you,
has been burned by fire,
and all our pleasant places have become ruins.
Jeremiah 7:14
14therefore I will do to wthe house xthat is called by my name, and in which you trust, and to the place that I gave to you and to your fathers, yas I did to Shiloh.Jeremiah 26:9
9Why have you prophesied in the name of the Lord, saying, ‘This house shall be zlike Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate, aawithout inhabitant’?” And all the people gathered around Jeremiah in the house of the Lord.
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