His beautiful ornaments they transformed into pride and used them to fashion their vile images and detestable idols. Therefore I will make these into something unclean for them.
Tell the house of Israel that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘I am about to desecrate My sanctuary, the pride of your p
For the people of Judah have done evil in My sight, declares the LORD. They have set up their abominations in the house
“Son of man,” He said to me, “do you see this? Yet you will see even greater abominations than these.”
Then He brought me to the entrance to the court, and I looked and saw a hole in the wall.
Then He told them, “Defile the temple and fill the courts with the slain. Go forth!” So they went out and began killing
Our holy and beautiful temple, where our fathers praised You, has been burned with fire, and all that was dear to us lie
Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the LORD had appeared to his fathe
‘Who is left among you who saw this house in its former glory? How does it look to you now? Does it not appear to you li
The adversary has seized all her treasures. For she has seen the nations enter her sanctuary—those You had forbidden to
Beautiful in loftiness, the joy of all the earth, like the peaks of Zaphon is Mount Zion, the city of the great King.
How the Lord has covered the Daughter of Zion with the cloud of His anger! He has cast the glory of Israel from heaven t
But many of the older priests, Levites, and family heads who had seen the first temple wept loudly when they saw the fou
Manasseh also built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, “In Jerusalem I will put My Name.”
Manasseh also built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, “My Name will remain in Jerusalem forev
And he removed from the entrance to the house of the LORD the horses that the kings of Judah had dedicated to the sun. T
to prepare for me timber in abundance, because the temple I am building will be great and wonderful.
Therefore as surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, because you have defiled My sanctuary with all your detestable ido
Furthermore, all the leaders of the priests and the people multiplied their unfaithful deeds, following all the abominat
The LORD loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.
therefore what I did to Shiloh I will now do to the house that bears My Name, the house in which you trust, the place th
Manasseh even took the carved Asherah pole he had made and set it up in the temple, of which the LORD had said to David
I will turn My face away from them, and they will defile My treasured place. Violent men will enter it, and they will de
Then King David said to the whole assembly, “My son Solomon, the one whom God has chosen, is young and inexperienced. Th
The Lord has rejected His altar; He has abandoned His sanctuary; He has delivered the walls of her palaces into the hand
From Zion, perfect in beauty, God shines forth.