Lamentations 1:6

Modern English Version

From the daughter of Zion all her beauty has departed. Her princes have become like deer that find no pasture; they fled without strength before the pursuer.

Cross References

2 Kings 19:21

This is the word that the Lord has spoken concerning him: She despises you, she ridicules you— virgin daughter of Zion. Behind you, she shakes her head — daughter of Jerusalem.

2 Kings 25:4

The city was breached, and all the fighting men fled by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which is by the king’s garden, though the Chaldeans were all around the city. They went along the way of the Arabah.

2 Kings 25:5

Then the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king and overtook him in the plains of Jericho. All his army deserted him.

Psalm 50:2

Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God has shined forth.

Psalm 96:9

Worship the Lord in the splendor of holiness; tremble before Him, all the earth!

Isaiah 1:21

How the faithful city has become a prostitute! She was full of justice; righteousness lodged in her, but now murderers.

Isaiah 12:6

Cry out and shout for joy, O inhabitant of Zion. For great is the Holy One of Israel in your midst.

Isaiah 4:5

then the Lord will create upon every dwelling place of Mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day and the shining of a flaming fire by night. For over all the glory shall be a covering.

Jeremiah 13:18

Say to the king and to the queen mother: “Humble yourselves, sit down, for your beautiful crown shall come down from your head.”

Jeremiah 29:4

Thus says the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, to all who have been carried away captive whom I have caused to be carried away from Jerusalem to Babylon:

Jeremiah 47:3

at the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his strong horses, at the rushing of his chariots, and at the rumbling of his wheels. The fathers will not look back to their children because of the feebleness of their hands,

Jeremiah 48:41

Kerioth has been captured, and the strongholds have been seized, and the mighty men’s hearts in Moab in that day will be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.

Jeremiah 52:11

Then he put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and the king of Babylon bound him in chains and carried him to Babylon and put him in prison until the day of his death.

Jeremiah 52:13

and burned the house of the Lord, and the king’s house, and all the houses of Jerusalem. Even all the large houses, he burned with fire.

Ezekiel 24:21

Speak to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord God: Behold, I will profane My sanctuary, the pride of your strength, the desire of your eyes and the delight of your soul. And your sons and your daughters whom you have left behind shall fall by the sword.

Ezekiel 24:25

As for you, son of man, shall it not be on the day when I take from them their strength, the joy of their glory, the desire of their eyes, and that on which they set their minds, their sons and their daughters,

Deuteronomy 28:25

The Lord will cause you to be defeated before your enemies, and you will go out one way against them and flee seven ways before them, and will become an object of terror to all the kingdoms of the earth.

Deuteronomy 32:30

How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, unless their rock had sold them, and the Lord had given them up?