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Lamentations 5:18

Mount Zion

16 The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!

17 For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.

Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.

19 Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.

20 Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?

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Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
because of Mount Zion, which lies desolate, patrolled by foxes.
KJV
Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.
WEB
for the mountain of Zion, which is desolate. The foxes walk on it.
ASV
For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate: The foxes walk upon it.
DARBY
Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate: foxes walk over it.
BLB
For Mount Zion, which is desolate; foxes have walked upon it.
ÅB
for Sions bergs skyld, som er øde; rever løper om på det.
OTB
for Sions berg er øde, med ville dyr som streifer over det.
B1930
for Sions bergs skyld, som er øde; rever løper om på det.

Study notes (Tyndale)

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Cross references

  • Micah 3:12

    Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.

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  • 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.

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  • Lamentations 2:8–9

    The LORD hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion: he hath stretched out a line, he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying: therefore he made the rampart and the wall to lament; they languished together.

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  • Isaiah 32:13–14

    Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city:

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  • Psalms 74:2–3

    Remember thy congregation, which thou hast purchased of old; the rod of thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed; this mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt.

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  • Jeremiah 52:13

    And burned the house of the LORD, and the king’s house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, and all the houses of the great men, burned he with fire:

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  • 1 Kings 9:7–8

    Then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all people:

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  • Jeremiah 17:3

    O my mountain in the field, I will give thy substance and all thy treasures to the spoil, and thy high places for sin, throughout all thy borders.

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