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Lam 2:17 — The LORD hath done [that] which he had devised; he hath fulfilled his word that he had commanded in the days of old: he hath thrown down, and hath not pitied: and he hath caused [thine] enemy to rejoice over thee, he hath set up the horn of thine adversaries.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

done		Lam 2:8; Lev 26:14-46; Deu 28:15-68; Deu 29:18-23; Deu 31:16,17; Deu 32:15-27; Jer 18:11; Mic 2:3
he hath thrown		Lam 2:1,2; Eze 5:11; Eze 7:8,9; Eze 8:18; Eze 9:10
he hath caused		Lam 1:5; Deu 28:43,44; Psa 38:16; Psa 89:42

Correlating Passages

done

	Lam 2:8	The LORD hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion: he hath stretched out a line, he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying: therefore he made the rampart and the wall to lament; they languished together.
	Lev 26:14	But if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these commandments;
	Lev 26:15	And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, [but] that ye break my covenant:
	Lev 26:16	I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
	Lev 26:17	And I will set my face against you, and ye shall be slain before your enemies: they that hate you shall reign over you; and ye shall flee when none pursueth you.
	Lev 26:18	And if ye will not yet for all this hearken unto me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins.
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	Deu 28:15	But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee:
	Deu 28:16	Cursed [shalt] thou [be] in the city, and cursed [shalt] thou [be] in the field.
	Deu 28:17	Cursed [shall be] thy basket and thy store.
	Deu 28:18	Cursed [shall be] the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.
	Deu 28:19	Cursed [shalt] thou [be] when thou comest in, and cursed [shalt] thou [be] when thou goest out.
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	Deu 29:18	Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the LORD our God, to go [and] serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood;
	Deu 29:19	And it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to thirst:
	Deu 29:20	The LORD will not spare him, but then the anger of the LORD and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and the LORD shall blot out his name from under heaven.
	Deu 29:21	And the LORD shall separate him unto evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that are written in this book of the law:
	Deu 29:22	So that the generation to come of your children that shall rise up after you, and the stranger that shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses which the LORD hath laid upon it;
	Deu 29:23	[And that] the whole land thereof [is] brimstone, and salt, [and] burning, [that] it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:
	Deu 31:16	And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers; and this people will rise up, and go a whoring after the gods of the strangers of the land, whither they go [to be] among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them.
	Deu 31:17	Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall befall them; so that they will say in that day, Are not these evils come upon us, because our God [is] not among us?
	Deu 32:15	But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered [with fatness]; then he forsook God [which] made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.
	Deu 32:16	They provoked him to jealousy with strange [gods], with abominations provoked they him to anger.
	Deu 32:17	They sacrificed unto devils, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new [gods that] came newly up, whom your fathers feared not.
	Deu 32:18	Of the Rock [that] begat thee thou art unmindful, and hast forgotten God that formed thee.
	Deu 32:19	And when the LORD saw [it], he abhorred [them], because of the provoking of his sons, and of his daughters.
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	Jer 18:11	Now therefore go to, speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a device against you: return ye now every one from his evil way, and make your ways and your doings good.
	Mic 2:3	Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, against this family do I devise an evil, from which ye shall not remove your necks; neither shall ye go haughtily: for this time [is] evil.

he hath thrown

	Lam 2:1	How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger, [and] cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel, and remembered not his footstool in the day of his anger!
	Lam 2:2	The Lord hath swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and hath not pitied: he hath thrown down in his wrath the strong holds of the daughter of Judah; he hath brought [them] down to the ground: he hath polluted the kingdom and the princes thereof.
	Eze 5:11	Wherefore, [as] I live, saith the Lord GOD; Surely, because thou hast defiled my sanctuary with all thy detestable things, and with all thine abominations, therefore will I also diminish [thee]; neither shall mine eye spare, neither will I have any pity.
	Eze 7:8	Now will I shortly pour out my fury upon thee, and accomplish mine anger upon thee: and I will judge thee according to thy ways, and will recompense thee for all thine abominations.
	Eze 7:9	And mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: I will recompense thee according to thy ways and thine abominations [that] are in the midst of thee; and ye shall know that I [am] the LORD that smiteth.
	Eze 8:18	Therefore will I also deal in fury: mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: and though they cry in mine ears with a loud voice, [yet] will I not hear them.
	Eze 9:10	And as for me also, mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity, [but] I will recompense their way upon their head.

he hath caused

	Lam 1:5	Her adversaries are the chief, her enemies prosper; for the LORD hath afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: her children are gone into captivity before the enemy.
	Deu 28:43	The stranger that [is] within thee shall get up above thee very high; and thou shalt come down very low.
	Deu 28:44	He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him: he shall be the head, and thou shalt be the tail.
	Psa 38:16	For I said, [Hear me], lest [otherwise] they should rejoice over me: when my foot slippeth, they magnify [themselves] against me.
	Psa 89:42	Thou hast set up the right hand of his adversaries; thou hast made all his enemies to rejoice.

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Scott, Thomas. "Lamentations 2:17," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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