Lamentations 1:6

God's Word

All splendor has abandoned the people of Zion. Its influential people were like deer that couldn’t find any pasture. They ran without any strength ahead of the hunters.

Cross References

2 Kings 19:21

This is the message that the Lord speaks to him, ‘My dear people in Zion despise you and laugh at you. My people in Jerusalem shake their heads behind your back.

2 Kings 25:4

The enemy broke through the city walls that night. All Judah’s soldiers left on the road of the gate between the two walls beside the king’s garden. While the Babylonians were attacking the city from all sides, the king took the road to the plain ⌞of Jericho⌟.

2 Kings 25:5

The Babylonian army pursued King Zedekiah and caught up with him in the plain of Jericho. His entire army had deserted him.

Psalm 50:2

God shines from Zion, the perfection of beauty.

Psalm 96:9

Worship the Lord in ⌞his⌟ holy splendor. Tremble in his presence, all the earth!

Isaiah 1:21

How the faithful town has become a prostitute! She was full of justice, and righteousness lived in her. But now murderers live there!

Isaiah 12:6

Shout loudly, and sing with joy, people of Zion! The Holy One of Israel is great. He is among you.”

Isaiah 4:5

The Lord will create a cloud of smoke during the day and a glowing flame of fire during the night over the whole area of Mount Zion and over the assembly. His glory will cover everything.

Jeremiah 13:18

Say to the king and his mother, “Come down from your thrones, because your crowns have fallen off your heads.”

Jeremiah 29:4

This is what the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, says to all those who were taken captive from Jerusalem to Babylon:

Jeremiah 47:3

They will hear the sound of galloping war horses, the rattling of enemy chariots, and the rumbling of their wheels. Fathers who lack courage abandon their children.

Jeremiah 48:41

The cities will be taken, and the fortified places will be captured. On that day Moab’s soldiers will be like women in childbirth.

Jeremiah 52:11

Then he blinded Zedekiah and put him in bronze shackles. The king of Babylon took him to Babylon and put him in a prison, where he stayed until he died.

Jeremiah 52:13

He burned down the Lord’s temple, the royal palace, and all the houses in Jerusalem. Every important building was burned down.

Ezekiel 24:21

‘Tell the nation of Israel, “This is what the Almighty Lord says: I’m going to dishonor my holy place. You brag that my holy place gives you strength. It’s the thing you love the most. It’s your hearts’ desire. So the sons and daughters that you left behind will die in battle.

Ezekiel 24:25

“Son of man, on that day I will take their stronghold away from them. It makes them happy and proud. It is their hearts’ desire and the thing they love the most. I will also take away their sons and daughters.

Deuteronomy 28:25

The Lord will let your enemies defeat you. You will attack them from one direction but run away from them in seven directions. You will become a thing of horror to all the kingdoms in the world.

Deuteronomy 32:30

How could one person chase a thousand or two people make ten thousand flee? Their rock used these people to defeat them and the Lord gave them no help.