Lamentations 1:6

New American Bible - revised edition

From daughter Zion has gone all her glory: Her princes have become like rams that find no pasture. They have gone off exhausted before their pursuers.

Cross References

2 Kings 19:21

This is the word the Lord has spoken concerning him: She despises you, laughs you to scorn, the virgin daughter Zion! Behind you she wags her head, daughter Jerusalem.

2 Kings 25:4

the city walls were breached. That night, all the soldiers came to the gate between the two walls near the king’s garden (the Chaldeans had the city surrounded), while the king went toward the Arabah.

2 Kings 25:5

But the Chaldean army pursued the king and overtook him in the desert near Jericho, abandoned by his whole army.

Psalm 50:2

From Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines forth.

Psalm 96:9

bow down to the Lord, splendid in holiness. Tremble before him, all the earth;

Isaiah 1:21

How she has become a prostitute, the faithful city, so upright! Justice used to lodge within her, but now, murderers.

Isaiah 12:6

Shout with exultation, City of Zion, for great in your midst is the Holy One of Israel!

Isaiah 4:5

Then will the Lord create, over the whole site of Mount Zion and over her place of assembly, A smoking cloud by day and a light of flaming fire by night.

Jeremiah 13:18

Say to the king and to the queen mother: come down from your throne; From your heads your splendid crowns will fall.

Jeremiah 29:4

Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, to all the exiles whom I exiled from Jerusalem to Babylon:

Jeremiah 47:3

At the noise of the pounding hooves of his steeds, the clanking chariots, the rumbling wheels, Parents do not turn back for their children; their hands hang helpless,

Jeremiah 48:41

Cities are captured, strongholds seized: On that day the hearts of Moab’s warriors become like the heart of a woman in labor.

Jeremiah 52:11

And the eyes of Zedekiah he then blinded, bound him with chains, and the king of Babylon brought him to Babylon and kept him in prison until the day he died. Destruction of Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 52:13

He burned the house of the Lord, the palace of the king, and all the houses of Jerusalem; every large building he destroyed with fire.

Ezekiel 24:21

Say to the house of Israel: Thus says the Lord God: I will now desecrate my sanctuary, the pride of your strength, the delight of your eyes, the concern of your soul. The sons and daughters you left behind shall fall by the sword.

Ezekiel 24:25

As for you, son of man, truly, on the very day I take away from them their strength, their glorious joy, the delight of their eyes, the desire of their soul, the pride of their hearts, their sons and daughters,

Deuteronomy 28:25

The Lord will let you be beaten down before your enemies; though you advance against them from one direction, you will flee before them in seven, so that you will become an object of horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.

Deuteronomy 32:30

“How could one rout a thousand, or two put ten thousand to flight, Unless it was because their Rock sold them, the Lord delivered them up?”