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Lamentations 4:12

WEB

12The kings of the earth didn’t believe, neither did all the inhabitants of the world, that the adversary and the enemy would enter into the gates of Jerusalem.

KJV

12The kings of the earth, and all the inhabitants of the world, would not have believed that the adversary and the enemy should have entered into the gates of Jerusalem.

BSB

12The kings of the earth did not believe, nor any people of the world, that an enemy or a foe could enter the gates of Jerusalem.

FBV

12No king on earth—in fact nobody in all the world—thought that an enemy or attacker could enter the gates of Jerusalem.

Extra References

Psalms 48:4-6

4For, behold, the kings assembled themselves, they passed by together. 5They saw it, then they were amazed. They were dismayed. They hurried away. 6Trembling took hold of them there, pain, as of a woman in travail.

Deuteronomy 29:24-28

24Even all the nations will say, “Why has the LORD done this to this land? What does the heat of this great anger mean?”

25Then men will say, “Because they abandoned the covenant of the LORD, the God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them out of the land of Egypt, 26and went and served other gods and worshiped them, gods that they didn’t know and that he had not given to them. 27Therefore the LORD’s anger burned against this land, to bring on it all the curses that are written in this book. 28The LORD rooted them out of their land in anger, in wrath, and in great indignation, and thrust them into another land, as it is today.”

Jeremiah 21:13

13Behold, I am against you, O inhabitant of the valley, and of the rock of the plain,’ says the LORD. ‘You that say, “Who would come down against us?” or, “Who would enter into our homes?”

1 Kings 9:8-9

8Though this house is so high, yet everyone who passes by it will be astonished and hiss; and they will say, ‘Why has the LORD done this to this land and to this house?’ 9and they will answer, ‘Because they abandoned the LORD their God, who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and embraced other gods, and worshiped them, and served them. Therefore the LORD has brought all this evil on them.’”