Watchtower ONLINE LIBRARY

Watchtower ONLINE LIBRARY

1 Kings 9:8

New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (Study Edition)
- 8 And this house will become heaps of ruins.+ Everyone passing by it will stare in amazement and will whistle and say, ‘Why did Jehovah do that to this land and this house?’+

Psalm 74:3

New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (Study Edition)
- 3 Direct your steps to the perpetual ruins.+
  
  The enemy has devastated everything in the holy place.+

Psalm 79:1

New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (Study Edition)
- 79 O God, the nations have invaded your inheritance;+
  They have defiled your holy temple;+
  They have turned Jerusalem into a heap of ruins.+

Isaiah 64:11

New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (Study Edition)
- 11 Our house* of holiness and glory,*
  Where our forefathers praised you,
  Has been burned with fire,+
  And all the things we cherished lie in ruins.

Jeremiah 7:14

New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (Study Edition)
- 14 So I will do to the house that bears my name,+ in which you are trusting,+ and to this place that I gave to you and your forefathers, just as I did to Shiʹloh.+

Lamentations 1:10

New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (Study Edition)
- 10 The adversary has laid his hands on all her treasures.+
  
  For she has seen nations enter her sanctuary,+
  Those whom you commanded should not enter into your congregation.

Lamentations 2:7

New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (Study Edition)
- 7 Jehovah has rejected his altar;
  He has spurned his sanctuary.+
  
  He has surrendered the walls of her fortified towers into the hand of the enemy.+
  
  They have raised their voice in the house of Jehovah,+ as on the day of a festival.

Micah 3:12

New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (Study Edition)
- 12 So because of you,
  Zion will be plowed up as a field,
  Jerusalem will become heaps of ruins,+
  And the mountain of the House* will become like high places in a forest.*+