Lamentations 1:4

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Lamentations 1:4

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.

Jeremiah 9:11

“I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins,
A haunt of jackals;
And I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.”

Joel 1:8-13

Wail like a virgin girded with sackcloth
For the bridegroom of her youth.

Isaiah 24:4-6

The earth mourns and withers, the world fades and withers, the exalted of the people of the earth fade away.

Jeremiah 10:22

The sound of a report! Behold, it comes—
A great commotion out of the land of the north—
To make the cities of Judah
A desolation, a haunt of jackals.

Jeremiah 14:2

“Judah mourns
And her gates languish;
They sit on the ground in mourning,
And the cry of Jerusalem has ascended.

And He has violently treated His tabernacle like a garden booth;
He has destroyed His appointed meeting place.
The Lord has caused to be forgotten
The appointed feast and sabbath in Zion,
And He has despised king and priest
In the indignation of His anger.

Isaiah 32:9-14

Rise up, you women who are at ease,
And hear my voice;
Give ear to my word,
You complacent daughters.

Jeremiah 33:10-12

“Thus says the Lord, ‘Yet again there will be heard in this place, of which you say, “It is a waste, without man and without beast,” that is, in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem that are desolate, without man and without inhabitant and without beast,

Lamentations 1:11-12

All her people groan seeking bread;
They have given their precious things for food
To restore their lives themselves.
“See, O Lord, and look,
For I am despised.”

Lamentations 1:18-20

“The Lord is righteous;
For I have rebelled against His command;
Hear now, all peoples,
And behold my pain;
My virgins and my young men
Have gone into captivity.

Lamentations 2:9-11

Her gates have sunk into the ground,
He has destroyed and broken her bars.
Her king and her princes are among the nations;
The law is no more.
Also, her prophets find
No vision from the Lord.

Lamentations 2:19-21

“Arise, cry aloud in the night
At the beginning of the night watches;
Pour out your heart like water
Before the presence of the Lord;
Lift up your hands to Him
For the life of your little ones
Who are faint because of hunger
At the head of every street.”

Lamentations 5:13

Young men worked at the grinding mill,
And youths stumbled under loads of wood.

Micah 3:12

Therefore, on account of you
Zion will be plowed as a field,
Jerusalem will become a heap of ruins,
And the mountain of the temple will become high places of a forest.

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Summary

Lamentations 1:4

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

Micah 3:12

All her gates

Her priests

General references

Isaiah 24:12

Isaiah 64:10

Bible References

Ways

Young men

worked at the grinding mill,

And youths stumbled under loads of wood.

The earth mourns and withers, the world fades and withers, the exalted of the people of the earth fade away.

“Judah mourns
And her gates languish;
They sit on the ground in mourning,
And the cry of Jerusalem has ascended.

Therefore, on account of you

Zion will be plowed as a field,

Jerusalem will become a heap of ruins,

And the mountain of the temple will become high places of a forest.

All her gates

Her gates have sunk into the ground,
He has destroyed and broken her bars.
Her king and her princes are among the nations;
The law is no more.
Also, her prophets find

No vision from the Lord.

“I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins,
A haunt of jackals;
And I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.”

The sound of a report! Behold, it comes—
A great commotion out of the land of the north—
To make the cities of Judah
A desolation, a haunt of jackals.

Her priests

All her people groan seeking bread;
They have given their precious things for food
To restore their lives themselves.
“See, O Lord, and look,
For I am despised.”

The elders of the daughter of Zion

Sit on the ground, they are silent.

They have thrown dust on their heads;
They have girded themselves with sackcloth.
The virgins of Jerusalem
Have bowed their heads to the ground.

Rise up, you women who are at ease,
And hear my voice;

Give ear to my word,

You complacent daughters.

Wail like a virgin girded with sackcloth

For the bridegroom of her youth.

General references

Desolation is left in the city
And the gate is battered to ruins.

Your holy cities have become a wilderness,
Zion has become a wilderness,
Jerusalem a desolation.