Lamentations 5:18

Modern English Version

because of Mount Zion, which is desolate, with foxes walking upon it.

Cross References

2 Kings 25:9

He burned the house of the Lord, the king’s house, and all the houses of Jerusalem. Every great house he burned with fire.

Nehemiah 4:3

Now Tobiah the Ammonite was beside him, and he said, “What they are rebuilding, if even a fox climbed up it, he would break down their stone wall!”

Psalm 63:10

They shall fall by the sword; they shall be prey for jackals.

Isaiah 64:9

Do not be wrathful beyond measure, O  Lord, nor remember iniquity forever. Behold, look upon us, we pray, for we all are Your people.

Jeremiah 17:3

O My mountain in the field, I will give your wealth and all your treasures to the destroyer, and your high places for sin throughout all your borders.

Jeremiah 26:9

Why have you prophesied in the name of the Lord, saying, ‘This house shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate without an inhabitant’?” And all the people were gathered against Jeremiah in the house of the Lord.

Jeremiah 44:2

Thus says the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel: You have seen all the calamity that I have brought upon Jerusalem and upon all the cities of Judah. Behold, this day they are a desolation, and no man dwells in them,

Jeremiah 44:6

Therefore My fury and My anger was poured out and was kindled in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; and they are ruined and desolate, as it is this day.

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.

Jeremiah 9:10

For the mountains I will take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up so that no one can pass through them; nor can men hear the lowing of the cattle. Both the fowl of the heavens and the beast have fled; they are gone.

Jeremiah 9:11

I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins and a den of jackals; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.

Ezekiel 13:4

O Israel, your prophets are like the foxes in the ruins.

Daniel 9:17

“Now therefore, O God, hear the prayer of Your servant and his supplications, and for Your sake, O Lord, cause Your face to shine upon Your sanctuary, which is desolate.

Micah 3:12

Therefore, because of you, Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will be mounds of ruins, and the mountain of the house will become wooded heights.