Lamentations 1:4

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

The roads to Zion   mourn, for no one comes to the appointed festivals. All her gates are deserted; her priests groan, her young women grieve, and she herself is bitter.

Cross References

Jeremiah 9:11

I will make Jerusalem a heap of rubble, a jackals’ den. I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, an uninhabited place.

Jeremiah 14:2

Judah mourns; her city gates languish. Her people are on the ground in mourning; Jerusalem’s cry rises up.

Jeremiah 10:22

Listen! A noise #– #it is coming – a great commotion  from the land to the north. The cities of Judah will be made desolate, a jackals’ den.

Micah 3:12

Therefore, because of you, Zion will be ploughed like a field, Jerusalem will become ruins, and the temple’s mountain will be a high thicket.

Lamentations 5:13

Young men labour at millstones; boys stumble under loads of wood.

Isaiah 3:26

Then her gates  will lament and mourn; deserted, she will sit on the ground.

Lamentations 1:21

People have heard me groaning, but there is no one to comfort me. All my enemies have heard of my misfortune; they are glad that you have caused it. Bring on the day you have announced, so that they may become like me.

Leviticus 26:22

I will send wild animals against you that will deprive you of your children, ravage your livestock, and reduce your numbers until your roads are deserted.

Lamentations 5:14

The elders have left the city gate, the young men, their music.

Hosea 2:13

And I will punish her for the days of the Baals, to which she burned incense. She put on her rings and her jewellery and followed her lovers, but she forgot me. This is the  Lord’s declaration.