Lamentations 5:18

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

for Mount Zion which lies desolate; jackals prowl over it.

Cross References

2 Kings 25:9

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

Nehemiah 4:3

Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, “Yes, what they are building—if a fox goes up on it he will break down their stone wall!”

Psalm 63:10

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

Isaiah 64:9

Be not exceedingly angry, O Lord, and remember not iniquity for ever. Behold, consider, we are all thy 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 about 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 evil that I brought upon Jerusalem and upon all the cities of Judah. Behold, this day they are a desolation, and no one dwells in them,

Jeremiah 44:6

Therefore my wrath and my anger were poured forth and kindled in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; and they became a waste and a desolation, as at this day.

Jeremiah 52:13

And he burned the house of the Lord, and 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 beasts 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 cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.”

Ezekiel 13:4

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

Daniel 9:17

Now therefore, O our God, hearken to the prayer of thy servant and to his supplications, and for thy own sake, O Lord, cause thy face to shine upon thy sanctuary, which is desolate.

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 house a wooded height.