Lamentations 1:6 - The Scriptures 1998

⁶ And all the splendour has departed From the daughter of Tsiyon. Her rulers have become like buck, They have found no pasture, And they go powerless before the pursuer.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ And from the daughter of Zion All her beauty is departed: Her princes are become like harts That find no pasture, And they are gone without strength Before the pursuer.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ From the Daughter of Zion all her beauty and majesty have departed. Her princes have become like harts that find no pasture; they have fled without strength before the pursuer.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ And from the daughter of Zion all her majesty is departed: Her princes are become like harts that find no pasture, And they are gone without strength before the pursuer.

Common English Bible

⁶ Daughter Zion lost all her glory. Her officials are like deer that can’t find pasture. They have gone away, frail, before the hunter.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ VAU. And all her elegance has departed, from the daughter of Zion. Her leaders have become like rams that cannot find pasture, and they have gone away without strength before the face of the pursuer.

Lamentations 1:6 Cross References

2 Kings 19:21

“This is the word which יהוה  has spoken concerning him, ‘The maiden, the daughter of Tsiyon, has despised you, mocked you; the daughter of Yerushalayim has shaken her head behind you!

2 Kings 25:4

Then the city wall was breached, and all the men of battle fled at night by way of the gate between two walls, which was by the sovereign’s garden, even though the Chaldeans were still encamped all around against the city. And the sovereign went by way of the desert plain.

2 Kings 25:5

And the army of the Chaldeans pursued the sovereign, and overtook him in the desert plains of Yeriḥ

Psalm 50:2

From Tsiyon, the perfection of loveliness, Elohim shall shine forth.

Psalm 96:9

Bow yourselves to יהוה, In the splendour of set-apartness! Tremble before Him, all the earth.

Isaiah 1:21

How the steadfast city has become a whore! I have filled it with right-ruling; righteousness lodged in it, but now murderers.

Isaiah 12:6

“Cry aloud and shout, O inhabitant of Tsiyon, for great is the Set-apart One of Yisra’ĕ

Isaiah 4:5

then יהוה  shall create above every dwelling place of Mount Tsiyon, and above her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day and the shining of a flaming fire by night, for over all the esteem shall be a covering,

Jeremiah 13:18

Say to the sovereign and to the sovereigness mother, “Humble yourselves. Sit down, for your rule, the crown of your comeliness, has come down.”

Jeremiah 29:4

“Thus said יהוה  of hosts, Elohim of Yisra’ĕ

Jeremiah 47:3

“At the noise of the stamping hooves of his strong horses, at the rushing of his chariots, at the rumbling of his wheels, the fathers shall not look to their children, because of weakness of hands,

Jeremiah 48:41

“Qeriyoth shall be captured, and the strongholds seized. And the heart of the mighty men in Mo’aḇ

Jeremiah 52:11

And he put out the eyes of Tsiḏ

Jeremiah 52:13

and he burned the House of יהוה, and the sovereign’s house, and all the houses of Yerushalayim, and all the houses of the great men, he burned with fire.

Ezekiel 24:21

‘Speak to the house of Yisra’ĕ

Ezekiel 24:25

‘And you, son of man, on the day when I take from them their stronghold, the joy of their adorning, the desire of their eyes, and the lifting up of their being, their sons and their daughters,

Deuteronomy 28:25

“יהוה  causes you to be defeated before your enemies – you go out one way against them and flee seven ways before them. And you shall become a horror to all the reigns of the earth.

Deuteronomy 32:30

“How would one chase a thousand, And two put ten thousand to flight, Unless their Rock had sold them, And יהוה  had given them up?