Lamentations 2:6
And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden: he hath destroyed his places of the assembly: the Lord hath caused the solemn feasts and sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion, and hath despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest.
Cross-reference
Lamentations 2:15 shows passersby mocking Jerusalem — the scornful result of the devastation described here.
Lamentations 1:4 similarly mourns the absence of people at the solemn feasts, reflecting the same judgment from the people's perspective.
Psalm 89:40 describes God breaking walls and ruining strongholds, parallel to Lamentations 2:6's destruction of the meeting place.
Isaiah 5:5 has God removing the vineyard's hedge and wall to destroy it, just as Lamentations 2:6 lays waste His dwelling like a garden.
Isaiah 63:18 says enemies trampled the sanctuary, while Lamentations 2:6 says God destroyed His meeting place—both refer to temple ruin.
Isaiah 64:11 laments the temple burned and ruined, directly paralleling Lamentations 2:6's destruction of the place of meeting.
Jeremiah 52:11-27 provides the historical account of the temple’s destruction and king’s capture that this verse laments poetically.
In 1 Kings 9:7, God warns he will cast out the temple; here that warning is realized as God destroys his tabernacle and assembly.
Psalm 81:3 calls for trumpets on the feast day; here God has caused solemn feasts to be forgotten — a direct reversal of worship joy.
In Isaiah 1:13, God rejects the solemn assemblies as iniquity; here he makes them forgotten, fulfilling that rejection in judgment.
Ezekiel 24:21 prophesies the desecration of the sanctuary — the very judgment now experienced in this verse.
Ezekiel 8:6 reveals the detestable acts driving God from his sanctuary — the cause behind the loss lamented here.
In Jeremiah 14:21, the people plead for God not to abhor them; here God has despised king and priest — the opposite outcome.
Jeremiah 50:28 records the cry of vengeance for the temple — a later response to the destruction mourned here.
Luke 21:6 predicts Jerusalem's temple stones thrown down — a later destruction parallel to the one described here.