And he burnt the house of the LORD, and the king's house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, burnt he with fire.
Lamentations 5:18 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895 For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate; the foxes walk upon it. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, The foxes walk upon it. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition As for Mount Zion, which lies desolate, the jackals prowl over it! American Standard Version (1901) For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate: The foxes walk upon it. Common English Bible Mount Zion, now deserted— only jackals walk on it now! Catholic Public Domain Version because of mount Zion, because it was ruined. Foxes have wandered upon it. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For mount Sion, because it is destroyed: foxes have walked upon it. |
And he burnt the house of the LORD, and the king's house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, burnt he with fire.
Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, Even that which they build, if a fox go up, he shall break down their stone wall.
They shall be given over to the power of the sword: They shall be a portion for foxes.
Be not wroth very sore, O LORD, neither remember iniquity for ever: behold, look, we beseech thee, we are all thy people.
O my mountain in the field, I will give thy substance and all thy treasures for a spoil, and thy high places, because of sin, throughout all thy borders.
Why hast thou prophesied in the name of the LORD, saying, This house shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate, without inhabitant? And all the people were gathered unto Jeremiah in the house of the LORD.
Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Ye have seen all the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, and upon all the cities of Judah; and, behold, this day they are a desolation, and no man dwelleth therein;
Wherefore my fury and mine anger was poured forth, and was kindled in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; and they are wasted and desolate, as it is this day.
and he burned the house of the LORD, and the king's house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, burned he with fire.
For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the pastures of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none passeth through; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the fowl of the heavens and the beast are fled, they are gone.
And I will make Jerusalem heaps, a dwelling place of jackals; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.
Now therefore, O our God, hearken unto the prayer of thy servant, and to his supplications, and cause thy face to shine upon thy sanctuary that is desolate, for the Lord's sake.
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 a forest.