Abandoned Stone altar in the wilderness with cranes flying overhead, dead bush in foreground with spider web, lizard on side of altar along with vines, and ancient city tower and walls in background. Water color style.
24 Then Gideon built an altar there to the LORD and called it, The LORD Is Peace. To this day it still stands at Ophrah, which belongs to the Abiezrites.
Lamentations 2
6 He has laid waste his booth like a garden, laid in ruins his meeting place; the LORD has made Zion forget festival and Sabbath, and in his fierce indignation has spurned king and priest.
Lamentations 2
7 The Lord has scorned his altar, disowned his sanctuary; he has delivered into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces; they raised a clamor in the house of the LORD as on the day of festival.
Lamentations 2
8 The LORD determined to lay in ruins the wall of the daughter of Zion; he stretched out the measuring line; he did not restrain his hand from destroying; he caused rampart and wall to lament; they languished together.
Leviticus 26
31 And I will lay your cities waste and will make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will not smell your pleasing aromas.
Leviticus 26
44 Yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not spurn them, neither will I abhor them so as to destroy them utterly and break my covenant with them, for I am the LORD their God.
Psalm 60
4 You have set up a banner for those who fear you, that they may flee to it from the bow. Selah
Psalm 74
3 Direct your steps to the perpetual ruins; the enemy has destroyed everything in the sanctuary!
Psalm 78
59 When God heard, he was full of wrath, and he utterly rejected Israel.
