Lamentations 1:4

New International Version

The roads to Zion mourn, for no one comes to her appointed festivals. All her gateways are desolate, her priests groan, her young women grieve, and she is in bitter anguish.

Cross References

Jeremiah 9:11

“I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins, a haunt of jackals; and I will lay waste the towns of Judah so no one can live there.”

Jeremiah 14:2

“Judah mourns, her cities languish; they wail for the land, and a cry goes up from Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 10:22

Listen! The report is coming— a great commotion from the land of the north! It will make the towns of Judah desolate, a haunt of jackals.

Micah 3:12

Therefore because of you, Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble, the temple hill a mound overgrown with thickets.

Lamentations 5:13

Young men toil at the millstones; boys stagger under loads of wood.

Isaiah 3:26

The gates of Zion will lament and mourn; destitute, she will sit on the ground.

Lamentations 1:21

“People have heard my groaning, but there is no one to comfort me. All my enemies have heard of my distress; they rejoice at what you have done. May you bring the day you have announced so they may become like me.

Leviticus 26:22

I will send wild animals against you, and they will rob you of your children, destroy your cattle and make you so few in number that your roads will be deserted.

Lamentations 5:14

The elders are gone from the city gate; the young men have stopped their music.

Hosea 2:13

I will punish her for the days she burned incense to the Baals; she decked herself with rings and jewelry, and went after her lovers, but me she forgot,” declares the Lord.