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Lamentations 2:8

New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures
- 8 Jehovah has resolved to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion.+
  
  He has stretched out the measuring line.+
  
  He has not held back his hand from bringing destruction.*
  
  And he causes rampart and wall to mourn.
  
  Together they have been made weak.

Lamentations 2:8

New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures—With References
- 8 Jehovah has thought of bringing the wall+ of the daughter of Zion to ruin.
  He has stretched out the measuring line.+ He has not turned back his hand from swallowing up.+
  And he causes rampart and wall to go mourning.+ Together they have faded away.

Lamentations 2:8

The Bible in Living English
- 8 Jehovah planned to wreck the walls of the daughter of Sion;
  he stretched a line, did not turn his hand back from sweeping it down,
  and let bulwark and wall mourn, forlorn together.

Lamentations 2:8

American Standard Version
- 8 Jehovah hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion; He hath stretched out the line, he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying; And he hath made the rampart and wall to lament; they languish together.

Lamentations 2:8

The Emphasized Bible
- 8 Yahweh hath devised to lay in ruins The wall of the daughter of Zion, He hath stretched out a line, He hath not turned back his hand From swallowing up,—Thus hath he caused to mourn—rampart and wall, Together have they languished!

Lamentations 2:8

King James Version
- 8 The LORD hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion: he hath stretched out a line, he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying: therefore he made the rampart and the wall to lament; they languished together.