Lamentations 5:18

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

because of Mount Zion, which lies desolate; jackals prowl over 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 down.

Nehemiah 4:3

Tobiah the Ammonite was beside him, and he said, “That stone wall they are building—any fox going up on it would break it down!”

Psalm 63:10

they shall be given over to the power of the sword; they shall be prey for jackals.

Isaiah 64:9

Do not be exceedingly angry, O Lord, and do not remember iniquity forever. Now consider, we are all your people.

Jeremiah 17:3

on the mountains in the open country. Your wealth and all your treasures I will give for spoil as the price of your sin throughout all your territory.

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 inhabitant’?” And all the people gathered around Jeremiah in the house of the Lord.

Jeremiah 44:2

Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: You yourselves have seen all the disaster that I have brought on Jerusalem and on all the towns of Judah. Look at them; today they are a desolation, without an inhabitant in them,

Jeremiah 44:6

So my wrath and my anger were poured out and kindled in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, and they became a waste and a desolation, as they still are today.

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.

Jeremiah 9:10

Take up weeping and wailing for the mountains and a lamentation for the pastures of the wilderness, because they are laid waste so that no one passes through, and the lowing of cattle is not heard; both the birds of the air and the animals have fled and are gone.

Jeremiah 9:11

I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins, a lair of jackals, and I will make the towns of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.

Ezekiel 13:4

Your prophets have been like jackals among ruins, O Israel.

Daniel 9:17

Now therefore, O our God, listen to the prayer of your servant and to his supplication, and for your own sake, Lord, let your face shine upon your desolated sanctuary.

Micah 3:12

Therefore because of you Zion shall be plowed as a field; Jerusalem shall become a heap of ruins, and the mountain of the temple a wooded height.