Lamentations 1:4

Good News Translation

No one comes to the Temple now to worship on the holy days. The young women who sang there suffer, and the priests can only groan. The city gates stand empty, and Zion is in agony.

Cross References

Isaiah 3:26

The city gates will mourn and cry, and the city itself will be like a woman sitting on the ground, stripped naked.

Jeremiah 10:22

Listen! News has come! There is a great commotion in a nation to the north; its army will turn the cities of Judah into a desert, a place where jackals live.”

Jeremiah 14:2

“Judah is in mourning; its cities are dying, its people lie on the ground in sorrow, and Jerusalem cries out for help.

Jeremiah 9:11

The Lord says, “I will make Jerusalem a pile of ruins, a place where jackals live; the cities of Judah will become a desert, a place where no one lives.”

Lamentations 1:21

“Listen to my groans; there is no one to comfort me. My enemies are glad that you brought disaster on me. Bring the day you promised; make my enemies suffer as I do.

Lamentations 5:13

Our young men are forced to grind grain like slaves; boys go staggering under heavy loads of wood.

Lamentations 5:14

The old people no longer sit at the city gate, and the young people no longer make music.

Hosea 2:13

I will punish her for the times that she forgot me, when she burned incense to Baal and put on her jewelry to go chasing after her lovers. The Lord has spoken.

Leviticus 26:22

I will send dangerous animals among you, and they will kill your children, destroy your livestock, and leave so few of you that your roads will be deserted.

Micah 3:12

And so, because of you, Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a pile of ruins, and the Temple hill will become a forest.