Lamentations 5:18

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate: The foxes walk upon it.

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Referenced Verses

Mic 3:12 : 12 Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.
1 Kgs 9:7-8 : 7 then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all peoples. 8 And though this house is so high, yet shall every one that passeth by it be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why hath Jehovah done thus unto this land, and to this house?
Ps 74:2-3 : 2 Remember thy congregation, which thou hast gotten of old, Which thou hast redeemed to be the tribe of thine inheritance; [And] mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt. 3 Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual ruins, All the evil that the enemy hath done in the sanctuary.
Isa 32:13-14 : 13 Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city. 14 For the palace shall be forsaken; the populous city shall be deserted; the hill and the watch-tower shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks;
Jer 9:11 : 11 And I will make Jerusalem heaps, a dwelling-place of jackals; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.
Jer 17:3 : 3 O my mountain in the field, I will give thy substance and all thy treasures for a spoil, [and] thy high places, because of sin, throughout all thy borders.
Jer 26:9 : 9 Why hast thou prophesied in the name of Jehovah, saying, This house shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate, without inhabitant? And all the people were gathered unto Jeremiah in the house of Jehovah.
Jer 52:13 : 13 and he burned the house of Jehovah, and the king's house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, burned he with fire.
Lam 2:8-9 : 8 Jehovah hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion; He hath stretched out the line, he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying; And he hath made the rampart and wall to lament; they languish together. 9 Her gates are sunk into the ground; he hath destroyed and broken her bars: Her king and her princes are among the nations where the law is not; Yea, her prophets find no vision from Jehovah.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

Lam 5:17
80%
17For this our heart is faint; For these things our eyes are dim;
Mic 3:12
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12Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.
Ezek 13:4
74%
4O Israel, thy prophets have been like foxes in the waste places.
Isa 32:13-14
2 verses
73%
13Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city.
14For the palace shall be forsaken; the populous city shall be deserted; the hill and the watch-tower shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks;
Jer 9:10-11
2 verses
73%
10For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the pastures of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none passeth through; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the birds of the heavens and the beasts are fled, they are gone.
11And I will make Jerusalem heaps, a dwelling-place of jackals; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.
Isa 27:10
73%
10For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof.
Jer 25:37-38
2 verses
73%
37And the peaceable folds are brought to silence because of the fierce anger of Jehovah.
38He hath left his covert, as the lion; for their land is become an astonishment because of the fierceness of the oppressing [sword], and because of his fierce anger.
Jer 5:6
73%
6Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, a wolf of the evenings shall destroy them, a leopard shall watch against their cities; every one that goeth out thence shall be torn in pieces; because their transgressions are many, [and] their backslidings are increased.
Isa 64:10-11
2 verses
72%
10Thy holy cities are become a wilderness, Zion is become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
11Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is burned with fire; and all our pleasant places are laid waste.
Job 28:8
72%
8The proud beasts have not trodden it, Nor hath the fierce lion passed thereby.
Ps 80:13
72%
13The boar out of the wood doth ravage it, And the wild beasts of the field feed on it.
Isa 22:1
72%
1The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee now, that thou art wholly gone up to the housetops?
Ps 63:10
72%
10They shall be given over to the power of the sword: They shall be a portion for foxes.
Ps 104:18
71%
18The high mountains are for the wild goats; The rocks are a refuge for the conies.
Lam 4:18-19
2 verses
71%
18They hunt our steps, so that we cannot go in our streets: Our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come.
19Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the heavens: They chased us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.
Lam 1:6
71%
6And from the daughter of Zion all her majesty is departed: Her princes are become like harts that find no pasture, And they are gone without strength before the pursuer.
Jer 4:7
71%
7A lion is gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations; he is on his way, he is gone forth from his place, to make thy land desolate, that thy cities be laid waste, without inhabitant.
Ps 17:12
71%
12He is like a lion that is greedy of his prey, And as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.
Jer 9:19
71%
19For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we ruined! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because they have cast down our dwellings.
Isa 18:6
71%
6They shall be left together unto the ravenous birds of the mountains, and to the beasts of the earth; and the ravenous birds shall summer upon them, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them.
Jer 12:11
71%
11They have made it a desolation; it mourneth unto me, being desolate; the whole land is made desolate, because no man layeth it to heart.
Isa 17:9
70%
9In that day shall their strong cities be as the forsaken places in the wood and on the mountain top, which were forsaken from before the children of Israel; and it shall be a desolation.
Lam 5:19
70%
19Thou, O Jehovah, abidest for ever; Thy throne is from generation to generation.
Joel 1:18
70%
18How do the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture; yea, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.
Jer 50:39
70%
39Therefore the wild beasts of the desert with the wolves shall dwell there, and the ostriches shall dwell therein: and it shall be no more inhabited for ever; neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation.
Ps 74:3
70%
3Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual ruins, All the evil that the enemy hath done in the sanctuary.
Isa 2:14
70%
14and upon all the high mountains, and upon all the hills that are lifted up,
Song 2:15
70%
15Take us the foxes, the little foxes, That spoil the vineyards; For our vineyards are in blossom.
Nah 2:11
70%
11Where is the den of the lions, and the feeding-place of the young lions, where the lion [and] the lioness walked, the lion's whelp, and none made them afraid?
Zeph 2:15
70%
15This is the joyous city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart, I am, and there is none besides me: how is she become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in! every one that passeth by her shall hiss, and wag his hand.
Mic 7:13
70%
13Yet shall the land be desolate because of them that dwell therein, for the fruit of their doings.
Isa 22:5
70%
5For it is a day of discomfiture, and of treading down, and of perplexity, from the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, in the valley of vision; a breaking down of the walls, and a crying to the mountains.
Job 30:6
70%
6So that they dwell in frightful valleys, In holes of the earth and of the rocks.
Jer 12:4
70%
4How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of the whole country wither? for the wickedness of them that dwell therein, the beasts are consumed, and the birds; because they said, He shall not see our latter end.
Jer 14:5
70%
5Yea, the hind also in the field calveth, and forsaketh [her young], because there is no grass.
Job 15:28
70%
28And he hath dwelt in desolate cities, In houses which no man inhabited, Which were ready to become heaps;
Job 4:11
70%
11The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, And the whelps of the lioness are scattered abroad.
Ezek 33:28
70%
28And I will make the land a desolation and an astonishment; and the pride of her power shall cease; and the mountains of Israel shall be desolate, so that none shall pass through.
Ps 55:10
70%
10Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof: Iniquity also and mischief are in the midst of it.
Ezek 19:7
69%
7And he knew their palaces, and laid waste their cities; and the land was desolate, and the fulness thereof, because of the noise of his roaring.
Mic 4:11
69%
11And now many nations are assembled against thee, that say, Let her be defiled, and let our eye see [our desire] upon Zion.
Isa 56:9
69%
9All ye beasts of the field, come to devour, [yea], all ye beasts in the forest.
Joel 1:20
69%
20Yea, the beasts of the field pant unto thee; for the water brooks are dried up, and the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness.
Jer 6:5
69%
5Arise, and let us go up by night, and let us destroy her palaces.
Isa 13:21
69%
21But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and ostriches shall dwell there, and wild goats shall dance there.