Deuteronomy 29:21-24

21And the Lord will single him out from all the tribes of Israel for calamity, in accordance with all the curses of the covenant written in this Book of the Law. 22And the next generation, your children who rise up after you, and the foreigner who comes from a far land, awill say, when they see the afflictions of that land and the sicknesses with which the Lord has made it sick 23the whole land burned out with brimstone and bsalt, nothing sown and nothing growing, where no plant can sprout, can overthrow like that of Sodom and Gomorrah, dAdmah, and Zeboiim, which the Lord overthrew in his anger and wrath 24all the nations ewill say, fWhy has the Lord done thus to this land? What caused the heat of this great anger?’

Isaiah 28:19

19As often as it passes through it will take you;
gfor morning by morning it will pass through,
by day and by night;
and it will be hsheer terror to understand the message.

Jeremiah 30:14

14 iAll your lovers have forgotten you;
they care nothing for you;
for I have dealt you the blow of jan enemy,
the punishment kof a merciless foe,
because your guilt is great,
lbecause your sins are flagrant.

Lamentations 2:15

15 All who pass along the way
clap their hands at you;
mthey hiss and wag their heads
at the daughter of Jerusalem:
“Is this the city that was called
nthe perfection of beauty,
othe joy of all the earth?”

Lamentations 3:33

33 pfor he does not afflict from his heart
or qgrieve the children of men.

Ezekiel 33:21

Jerusalem Struck Down

21In the rtwelfth year sof our exile, in the tenth month, on the fifth day of the month, ta fugitive from Jerusalem came to me and said, u“The city has been struck down.”

Luke 19:41-44

Jesus Weeps over Jerusalem

41 vAnd when he drew near and saw the city, whe wept over it, 42saying, xWould that you, even you, had known on this day the things that make for peace! But now ythey are hidden from your eyes. 43For zthe days will come upon you, when your enemies aawill set up a barricade around you and absurround you and hem you in on every side 44 acand tear you down to the ground, you and your children within you. And adthey will not leave one stone upon another in you, because you did not know aethe time of your afvisitation.”

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