The roads to Zion mourn, because no one comes to her appointed feasts. All her gates are deserted; her priests groan, her maidens grieve, and she herself is bitter with anguish. Cross References Isaiah 3:26And the gates of Zion will lament and mourn; destitute, she will sit on the ground. Isaiah 24:4 The earth mourns and withers; the world languishes and fades; the exalted of the earth waste away. Jeremiah 9:11 "And I will make Jerusalem a heap of rubble, a haunt for jackals; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant." Jeremiah 10:22 Listen! The sound of a report is coming--a great commotion from the land to the north. The cities of Judah will be made a desolation, a haunt of jackals. Lamentations 1:21 People have heard my groaning, but there is no one to comfort me. All my enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that You have caused it. May You bring the day You have announced, so that they may become like me. Lamentations 2:6 He has laid waste to His tabernacle like a garden booth; He has destroyed His place of meeting. The LORD has made Zion forget her appointed feasts and Sabbaths. In His fierce anger He has despised both king and priest. Lamentations 2:7 The Lord has rejected His altar; He has abandoned His sanctuary; He has handed the walls of her palaces over to the enemy. They have raised a shout in the house of the LORD as on the day of an appointed feast. Lamentations 2:10 The elders of the Daughter of Zion sit on the ground in silence. They have thrown dust on their heads and put on sackcloth. The young women of Jerusalem have bowed their heads to the ground. Lamentations 2:21 Both young and old lie together in the dust of the streets. My young men and maidens have fallen by the sword. You have slain them in the day of Your anger; You have slaughtered them without compassion. Joel 1:8 Wail like a virgin dressed in sackcloth, grieving for the husband of her youth. Chapter Outline 1. The miseries of Jerusalem and of the Jews lamented12. The attention of beholders demanded to this unprecedented case 18. The justice of God acknowledged, and his mercy supplicated. Jump to Previous Afflicted Anguish Appointed Assembly Bitter Bitterly Bitterness Breathing Desolate Doorways Dragged Feasts Gates Gateways Grieve Groan Groaning Herself Holy Maidens Meeting Mourn Mourning Priests Roads Sad Sigh Solemn Sorrow Suffers Time Troubled Virgins Waste Ways ZionJump to Next Afflicted Anguish Appointed Assembly Bitter Bitterly Bitterness Breathing Desolate Doorways Dragged Feasts Gates Gateways Grieve Groan Groaning Herself Holy Maidens Meeting Mourn Mourning Priests Roads Sad Sigh Solemn Sorrow Suffers Time Troubled Virgins Waste Ways Zion |
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge ways Lamentations 2:6, 7 Lamentations 5:13 Isaiah 24:4-6 Jeremiah 14:2 Micah 3:12 all her gates Lamentations 2:9 Jeremiah 9:11 Jeremiah 10:22 Jeremiah 33:10-12 her priests Lamentations 1:11, 12, 18-20 Lamentations 2:10, 11, 19-21 Isaiah 32:9-14 Joel 1:8-13 Links Lamentations 1:4 NIVLamentations 1:4 NLT Lamentations 1:4 ESV Lamentations 1:4 NASB Lamentations 1:4 KJV Lamentations 1:4 Bible Apps Lamentations 1:4 Parallel Lamentations 1:4 Biblia Paralela Lamentations 1:4 Chinese Bible Lamentations 1:4 French Bible Lamentations 1:4 German Bible Lamentations 1:4 Commentaries Bible Hub |