Watchtower ONLINE LIBRARY

Watchtower ONLINE LIBRARY

1 Kings 9:8

New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures—With References
- 8 And this house itself will become heaps of ruins.*+ Everyone passing by it will stare in amazement+ and will certainly whistle and say, ‘For what reason did Jehovah do like that to this land and this house?’+

2 Chronicles 36:19

New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures—With References
- 19 And he proceeded to burn the house of the [true] God+ and pull down the wall+ of Jerusalem; and all its dwelling towers they burned with fire and also all its desirable articles,+ so as to cause ruin.+

Psalm 74:3

New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures—With References
- 3 Do lift up your steps to the long-lasting desolations.+
  Everything the enemy has treated badly in the holy place.+

Psalm 79:1

New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures—With References
- 79 O God, the nations have come into your inheritance;+
  They have defiled your holy temple;+
  They have laid Jerusalem in a heap of ruins.+

Isaiah 64:11

New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures—With References
- 11 Our house of holiness and beauty,+ in which our forefathers praised you,+ has itself become something for burning in the fire;+ and every one of our desirable things+ has become a devastation.

Jeremiah 7:14

New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures—With References
- 14 I will do also to the house upon which my name has been called,+ in which YOU are trusting,+ and to the place that I gave to YOU and to YOUR forefathers, just as I did to Shiʹloh.+

Lamentations 1:10

New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures—With References
- 10 The adversary has spread out his own hand against all her desirable things.+
  For she has seen nations that have come into her sanctuary,+
  Whom you commanded that they should not come into the congregation* belonging to you.

Lamentations 2:7

New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures—With References
- 7 Jehovah* has cast off his altar.+ He has spurned his sanctuary.+
  Into the hand of the enemy he has surrendered the walls of her dwelling towers.+
  In the house of Jehovah they have let out [their] own voice, as in the day of a festival.+

Micah 3:12

New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures—With References
- 12 Therefore on account of YOU men Zion will be plowed up as a mere field, and Jerusalem herself will become mere heaps of ruins,+ and the mountain of the house will be as the high places of a forest.