Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version The roads to Zion mourn, for no one comes to her appointed festivals. All her gateways are desolate, her priests groan, her young women grieve, and she is in bitter anguish. New Living Translation The roads to Jerusalem are in mourning, for crowds no longer come to celebrate the festivals. The city gates are silent, her priests groan, her young women are crying— how bitter is her fate! English Standard Version The roads to Zion mourn, for none come to the festival; all her gates are desolate; her priests groan; her virgins have been afflicted, and she herself suffers bitterly. Berean Standard Bible 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. King James Bible The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitterness. New King James Version The roads to Zion mourn Because no one comes to the set feasts. All her gates are desolate; Her priests sigh, Her virgins are afflicted, And she is in bitterness. New American Standard Bible The roads of Zion are in mourning Because no one comes to an appointed feast. All her gates are deserted; Her priests groan, Her virgins are worried, And as for Zion herself, it is bitter for her. NASB 1995 The roads of Zion are in mourning Because no one comes to the appointed feasts. All her gates are desolate; Her priests are groaning, Her virgins are afflicted, And she herself is bitter. NASB 1977 The roads of Zion are in mourning Because no one comes to the appointed feasts. All her gates are desolate; Her priests are groaning, Her virgins are afflicted, And she herself is bitter. Legacy Standard Bible The roads of Zion are in mourning Because no one comes to the appointed times. All her gates are desolate; Her priests are sighing, Her virgins are grieving, And she herself is bitter. Amplified Bible The roads to Zion are in mourning Because no one comes to the appointed feasts. All her gates are desolate; Her priests are groaning, Her virgins are grieved and suffering, And she suffers bitterly. Christian Standard Bible The roads to Zion mourn, for no one comes to the appointed festivals. All her gates are deserted; her priests groan, her young women grieve, and she herself is bitter. Holman Christian Standard Bible The roads to Zion mourn, for no one comes to the appointed festivals. All her gates are deserted; her priests groan, her young women grieve, and she herself is bitter. American Standard Version The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn assembly; All her gates are desolate, her priests do sigh: Her virgins are afflicted, and she herself is in bitterness. Contemporary English Version The roads to Zion mourn because no one travels there to celebrate the festivals. The city gates are deserted; priests are weeping. Young women are raped; Zion is in sorrow! English Revised Version The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn assembly; all her gates are desolate, her priests do sigh: her virgins are afflicted, and she herself is in bitterness. GOD'S WORD® Translation "The roads to Zion are deserted. No one comes to the annual festivals. No one passes through any of its gates. Its priests are groaning. Its young women are made to suffer. Zion is bitter. Good News Translation No one comes to the Temple now to worship on the holy days. The young women who sang there suffer, and the priests can only groan. The city gates stand empty, and Zion is in agony. International Standard Version The roads that lead to Zion are in mourning, because no one travels to the festivals. All her gates are desolate; her priests are moaning. Her young women are grieving, and she is bitter. Majority Standard Bible 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. NET Bible The roads to Zion mourn because no one travels to the festivals. All her city gates are deserted; her priests groan. Her virgins grieve; she is in bitter anguish! New Heart English Bible The roads to Zion mourn, because no one comes to the solemn assembly; all her gates are desolate, her priests groan: her virgins are afflicted, and she herself is in bitterness. Webster's Bible Translation The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitterness. World English Bible The roads to Zion mourn, because no one comes to the solemn assembly. All her gates are desolate. Her priests sigh. Her virgins are afflicted, and she herself is in bitterness. Literal Translations Literal Standard VersionThe ways of Zion are mourning, "" Without any coming at the appointed time, "" All her gates are desolate, her priests sigh, "" Her virgins are afflicted—and she has bitterness. Young's Literal Translation The ways of Zion are mourning, Without any coming at the appointed time, All her gates are desolate, her priests sigh, Her virgins are afflicted -- and she hath bitterness. Smith's Literal Translation The ways of Zion mourn from none coming to the appointment: all her gates being desolated: her priests groaning, her virgins grieved, and it is bitterness to her. Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims BibleDaleth. The ways of Sion mourn, because there are none that come to the solemn feast: all her gates are broken down: her priests sigh: her virgins are in affliction, and she is oppressed with bitterness. Catholic Public Domain Version DALETH. The pathways of Zion mourn, because there are none who approach for the solemnity. All her gates are destroyed. Her priests groan. Her virgins are filthy. And she is overwhelmed with bitterness. New American Bible The roads to Zion mourn, empty of pilgrims to her feasts. All her gateways are desolate, her priests groan, Her young women grieve; her lot is bitter. New Revised Standard Version The roads to Zion mourn, for no one comes to the festivals; all her gates are desolate, her priests groan; her young girls grieve, and her lot is bitter. Translations from Aramaic Lamsa BibleThe ways of Zion mourn because none come to the solemn feasts; all her gates are desolate; her priests sigh, her virgins are humbled? and she is in bitterness. Peshitta Holy Bible Translated Daleth The ways of Zion are in mourning for lack of those coming to the feast. All her gates are deserted, and her Priests groan, and her virgins are humiliated, and she has made herself bitter OT Translations JPS Tanakh 1917The ways of Zion do mourn, Because none come to the solemn assembly; All her gates are desolate, Her priests sigh; Her virgins are afflicted, And she herself is in bitterness. Brenton Septuagint Translation DALETH. The ways of Sion mourn, because there are none that come to the feast: all her gates are ruined: her priests groan, her virgins are led captive, and she is in bitterness in herself. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context How Lonely Lies the City…3Judah has gone into exile under affliction and harsh slavery; she dwells among the nations but finds no place to rest. All her pursuers have overtaken her in the midst of her distress. 4The 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. 5Her foes have become her masters; her enemies are at ease. For the LORD has brought her grief because of her many transgressions. Her children have gone away as captives before the enemy.… Cross References Isaiah 64:10-11 Your holy cities have become a wilderness. Zion has become a wasteland and Jerusalem a desolation. / Our holy and beautiful temple, where our fathers praised You, has been burned with fire, and all that was dear to us lies in ruins. Jeremiah 14:2 “Judah mourns and her gates languish. Her people wail for the land, and a cry goes up from Jerusalem. Jeremiah 52:13-14 He burned down the house of the LORD, the royal palace, and all the houses of Jerusalem—every significant building. / And the whole army of the Chaldeans under the captain of the guard broke down all the walls around Jerusalem. Zephaniah 3:6 “I have cut off the nations; their corner towers are destroyed. I have made their streets deserted with no one to pass through. Their cities are laid waste, with no man, no inhabitant. 2 Kings 25:9-10 He burned down the house of the LORD, the royal palace, and all the houses of Jerusalem—every significant building. / And the whole army of the Chaldeans under the captain of the guard broke down the walls around Jerusalem. Psalm 74:3-8 Turn Your steps to the everlasting ruins, to everything in the sanctuary the enemy has destroyed. / Your foes have roared within Your meeting place; they have unfurled their banners as signs, / like men wielding axes in a thicket of trees ... Ezekiel 7:20-22 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. / And I will hand these things over as plunder to foreigners and loot to the wicked of the earth, who will defile them. / I will turn My face away from them, and they will defile My treasured place. Violent men will enter it, and they will defile it. Micah 3:12 Therefore, because of you, Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble, and the temple mount a wooded ridge. Joel 1:9-13 Grain and drink offerings have been cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests are in mourning, those who minister before the LORD. / The field is ruined; the land mourns. For the grain is destroyed, the new wine is dried up, and the oil fails. / Be dismayed, O farmers, wail, O vinedressers, over the wheat and barley, because the harvest of the field has perished. ... Hosea 2:11 I will put an end to all her exultation: her feasts, New Moons, and Sabbaths—all her appointed feasts. Matthew 23:37-38 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were unwilling! / Look, your house is left to you desolate. Luke 19:41-44 As Jesus approached Jerusalem and saw the city, He wept over it / and said, “If only you had known on this day what would bring you peace! But now it is hidden from your eyes. / For the days will come upon you when your enemies will barricade you and surround you and hem you in on every side. ... Mark 13:1-2 As Jesus was leaving the temple, one of His disciples said to Him, “Teacher, look at the magnificent stones and buildings!” / “Do you see all these great buildings?” Jesus replied. “Not one stone here will be left on another; every one will be thrown down.” Matthew 24:1-2 As Jesus left the temple and was walking away, His disciples came up to Him to point out its buildings. / “Do you see all these things?” He replied. “Truly I tell you, not one stone here will be left on another; every one will be thrown down.” John 2:19-21 Jesus answered, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up again.” / “This temple took forty-six years to build,” the Jews replied, “and You are going to raise it up in three days?” / But Jesus was speaking about the temple of His body. Treasury of Scripture The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitterness. ways Lamentations 2:6,7 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… Lamentations 5:13 They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood. Isaiah 24:4-6 The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, the haughty people of the earth do languish… all her gates Lamentations 2:9 Her gates are sunk into the ground; he hath destroyed and broken her bars: her king and her princes are among the Gentiles: the law is no more; her prophets also find no vision from the LORD. Jeremiah 9:11 And I will make Jerusalem heaps, and a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant. Jeremiah 10:22 Behold, the noise of the bruit is come, and a great commotion out of the north country, to make the cities of Judah desolate, and a den of dragons. her priests Lamentations 1:11,12,18-20 All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their pleasant things for meat to relieve the soul: see, O LORD, and consider; for I am become vile… Lamentations 2:10,11,19-21 The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, and keep silence: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground… Isaiah 32:9-14 Rise up, ye women that are at ease; hear my voice, ye careless daughters; give ear unto my speech… 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 ZionLamentations 1 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. The roads to Zion mourn The phrase "The roads to Zion mourn" evokes a vivid image of desolation and abandonment. In Hebrew, the word for "mourn" is "אֲבֵלִים" (avelim), which conveys a deep sense of lamentation and sorrow. Historically, these roads would have been bustling with pilgrims traveling to Jerusalem for the appointed festivals, such as Passover, Pentecost, and the Feast of Tabernacles. The roads' mourning symbolizes the cessation of joyful pilgrimage and worship, reflecting the spiritual and physical desolation of Jerusalem after the Babylonian conquest. for no one comes to her appointed festivals All her gates are desolate her priests groan her maidens grieve and she herself is bitter in anguish Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew The roadsדַּרְכֵ֨י (dar·ḵê) Noun - common plural construct Strong's 1870: A road, a course of life, mode of action to Zion צִיּ֜וֹן (ṣî·yō·wn) Noun - proper - feminine singular Strong's 6726: Zion -- a mountain in Jerusalem, also a name for Jerusalem mourn, אֲבֵל֗וֹת (’ă·ḇê·lō·wṯ) Adjective - feminine plural Strong's 57: Lamenting because no one מִבְּלִי֙ (mib·bə·lî) Preposition-m | Adverb Strong's 1097: Failure, nothing, destruction, without, not yet, because not, as long as comes בָּאֵ֣י (bā·’ê) Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural construct Strong's 935: To come in, come, go in, go to her appointed feasts. מוֹעֵ֔ד (mō·w·‘êḏ) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 4150: Appointed time, place, or meeting All כָּל־ (kāl-) Noun - masculine singular construct Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every her gates שְׁעָרֶ֙יהָ֙ (šə·‘ā·re·hā) Noun - masculine plural construct | third person feminine singular Strong's 8179: An opening, door, gate are deserted; שֽׁוֹמֵמִ֔ין (šō·w·mê·mîn) Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural Strong's 8074: To stun, devastate, stupefy her priests כֹּהֲנֶ֖יהָ (kō·hă·ne·hā) Noun - masculine plural construct | third person feminine singular Strong's 3548: Priest groan, נֶאֱנָחִ֑ים (ne·’ĕ·nā·ḥîm) Verb - Nifal - Participle - masculine plural Strong's 584: To sigh, groan her maidens בְּתוּלֹתֶ֥יהָ (bə·ṯū·lō·ṯe·hā) Noun - feminine plural construct | third person feminine singular Strong's 1330: A virgin, sometimes, a bride grieve, נּוּג֖וֹת (nū·ḡō·wṯ) Verb - Nifal - Participle - feminine plural Strong's 3013: To grieve and she herself וְהִ֥יא (wə·hî) Conjunctive waw | Pronoun - third person feminine singular Strong's 1931: He, self, the same, this, that, as, are is bitter with anguish. מַר־ (mar-) Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular Strong's 4751: Bitter, bitterness, bitterly Links Lamentations 1:4 NIVLamentations 1:4 NLT Lamentations 1:4 ESV Lamentations 1:4 NASB Lamentations 1:4 KJV Lamentations 1:4 BibleApps.com Lamentations 1:4 Biblia Paralela Lamentations 1:4 Chinese Bible Lamentations 1:4 French Bible Lamentations 1:4 Catholic Bible OT Prophets: Lamentations 1:4 The ways of Zion do mourn because (Lam. 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