Lamentations 1:6

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

From daughter Zion has departed all her majesty. Her princes have become like stags 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 scorns you— virgin daughter Zion; she tosses her head—behind your back, daughter Jerusalem.

2 Kings 25:4

Then a breach was made in the city wall; the king with all the soldiers fled by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, by the King’s Garden, though the Chaldeans were all around the city. They went in the direction of the Arabah.

2 Kings 25:5

But the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king and overtook him in the plains of Jericho; all his army was scattered, deserting him.

Psalm 50:2

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

Psalm 96:9

Worship the Lord in holy splendor; tremble before him, all the earth.

Isaiah 1:21

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

Isaiah 12:6

Shout aloud and sing for joy, O royal Zion, for great in your midst is the Holy One of Israel.”

Isaiah 4:5

Then the Lord will create over the whole site of Mount Zion and over its places of assembly a cloud by day and smoke and the shining of a flaming fire by night. Indeed, over all the glory there will be a canopy.

Jeremiah 13:18

Say to the king and the queen mother: “Take a lowly seat, for your beautiful crown has come down from your head.”

Jeremiah 29:4

Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, to all the exiles whom I have sent into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon:

Jeremiah 47:3

At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his stallions, at the clatter of his chariots, at the rumbling of their wheels, parents do not turn back for children, so feeble are their hands,

Jeremiah 48:41

the towns shall be taken and the strongholds seized. The hearts of the warriors of Moab, on that day, shall be like the heart of a woman in labor.

Jeremiah 52:11

He put out the eyes of Zedekiah and bound him in fetters, and the king of Babylon took him to Babylon and put him in prison until the day of his death.

Jeremiah 52:13

He burned the house of the Lord, the king’s house, and all the houses of Jerusalem; every great house he burned down.

Ezekiel 24:21

Say to the house of Israel: Thus says the Lord God: I will profane my sanctuary, the pride of your power, the delight of your eyes, and your heart’s desire, and your sons and your daughters whom you left behind shall fall by the sword.

Ezekiel 24:25

And you, mortal, on the day when I take from them their stronghold, their joy and glory, the delight of their eyes and their heart’s affection, and also their sons and their daughters,

Deuteronomy 28:25

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

Deuteronomy 32:30

How could one have routed a thousand and two put a myriad to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, the Lord had given them up?