Lamentations 1:4 - The Scriptures 1998

⁴ The ways to Tsiyon mourn For no one comes to the appointed times. All her gates are deserted, Her priests sigh, her maidens are afflicted, And she has bitterness.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ The roads to Zion mourn, because no one comes to the solemn assembly or the appointed feasts. All her gates are desolate, her priests sigh and groan, her maidens are grieved and vexed, and she herself is in bitterness.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ 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.

Common English Bible

⁴ Zion’s roads are in mourning; no one comes to the festivals. All her gates are deserted. Her priests are groaning, her young women grieving. She is bitter.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ 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.

Lamentations 1:4 Cross References

Isaiah 3:26

And her gates shall lament and mourn, and she, deserted, shall sit on the ground.

Jeremiah 10:22

See, it has come, the voice of a report, and a great shaking out of the land of the north, to make the cities of Yehuḏ

Jeremiah 14:2

“Yehuḏ

Jeremiah 9:11

“And I shall make Yerushalayim a heap of ruins, a habitation for jackals; and the cities of Yehuḏ

Lamentations 1:21

“They have heard that I sighed, With no one to comfort me. All my enemies have heard of my calamity, They have rejoiced that You have done it. You shall bring on the day that You have announced, So let them become like me.

Lamentations 5:13

They have taken young men to grind, And youths stumbled under loads of wood.

Lamentations 5:14

Elders have ceased from the gate, Young men from their song.

Hosea 2:13

“And I shall punish her for the days of the Baʽ

Leviticus 26:22

and send wild beasts among you, which shall bereave you of your children. And I shall cut off your livestock, and make you few in number, and your highways shall be deserted.

Micah 3:12

Therefore, because of you, Tsiyon is ploughed like a field, and Yerushalayim becomes heaps, and the mountain of the House like a wooded height.