Lamentations 5:18

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Because of the mountain of Zion which is a waste; jackals go over it.

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  • Mic 3:12 : 12 For this reason, Zion will be ploughed like a field because of you, and Jerusalem will become a mass of broken walls, and the mountain of the house like a high place in the woods.
  • 1 Kgs 9:7-8 : 7 Then I will have Israel cut off from the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have made holy for myself, I will put away from before my eyes; and Israel will be a public example, and a word of shame among all peoples. 8 And this house will become a mass of broken walls, and everyone who goes by will be overcome with wonder at it and make whistling sounds; and they will say, Why has the Lord done so to this land and to this house?
  • Ps 74:2-3 : 2 Keep in mind your band of worshippers, for whom you gave payment in the days which are past, whom you took for yourself as the people of your heritage; even this mountain of Zion, which has been your resting-place. 3 Go up and see the unending destruction; all the evil which your haters have done in the holy place;
  • Isa 32:13-14 : 13 And for the land of my people, where thorns will come up; even for all the houses of joy in the glad town. 14 For the fair houses will have no man living in them; the town which was full of noise will become a waste; the hill and the watchtower will be unpeopled for ever, a joy for the asses of the woods, a place of food for the flocks;
  • Jer 9:11 : 11 And I will make Jerusalem a mass of broken stones, the living-place of jackals; and I will make the towns of Judah a waste, with no man living there.
  • Jer 17:3 : 3 I will give your wealth and all your stores to be taken away in war without a price, because of your sins in every part of your land.
  • Jer 26:9 : 9 Why have you said in the name of the Lord, This house will be like Shiloh, and this land a waste with no one living in it? And all the people had come together to Jeremiah in the house of the Lord.
  • Jer 52:13 : 13 And he had the house of the Lord and the king's house and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, burned with fire:
  • Lam 2:8-9 : 8 It is the Lord's purpose to make waste the wall of the daughter of Zion; his line has been stretched out, he has not kept back his hand from destruction: he has sent sorrow on tower and wall, they have become feeble together. 9 Her doors have gone down into the earth; he has sent destruction on her locks: her king and her princes are among the nations where the law is not; even her prophets have had no vision from the Lord.

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  • 17 Because of this our hearts are feeble; for these things our eyes are dark;

  • 12 For this reason, Zion will be ploughed like a field because of you, and Jerusalem will become a mass of broken walls, and the mountain of the house like a high place in the woods.

  • 4 O Israel, your prophets have been like jackals in the waste places.

  • Isa 32:13-14
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    13 And for the land of my people, where thorns will come up; even for all the houses of joy in the glad town.

    14 For the fair houses will have no man living in them; the town which was full of noise will become a waste; the hill and the watchtower will be unpeopled for ever, a joy for the asses of the woods, a place of food for the flocks;

  • Jer 9:10-11
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    10 Give yourselves to weeping, crying out in sorrow for the mountains; and for the fields of the waste land send up a song of grief, because they are burned up, so that no one goes through; there is no sound of cattle; the bird of the heavens and the beast are in flight and are gone.

    11 And I will make Jerusalem a mass of broken stones, the living-place of jackals; and I will make the towns of Judah a waste, with no man living there.

  • 10 For the strong town is without men, an unpeopled living-place; and she has become a waste land: there the young ox will take his rest, and its branches will be food for him.

  • Jer 25:37-38
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    37 And there is no sound in the fields of peace, because of the burning wrath of the Lord.

    38 The lion has come out of his secret place, for the land has become a waste because of the cruel sword, and because of the heat of his wrath.

  • 6 And so a lion from the woods will put them to death, a wolf of the waste land will make them waste, a leopard will keep watch on their towns, and everyone who goes out from them will be food for the beasts; because of the great number of their sins and the increase of their wrongdoing.

  • Isa 64:10-11
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    10 Our holy and beautiful house, where our fathers gave praise to you, is burned with fire; and all the things of our desire have come to destruction.

    11 In view of all this, will you still do nothing, O Lord? will you keep quiet, and go on increasing our punishment?

  • 8 The great beasts have not gone over it, and the cruel lion has not taken that way.

  • 13 It is uprooted by the pigs from the woods, the beasts of the field get their food from it.

  • 1 The word about the valley of vision. Why have all your people gone up to the house-tops?

  • 10 They will be cut off by the sword; they will be food for foxes.

  • 18 The high hills are a safe place for the mountain goats, and the rocks for the small beasts.

  • Lam 4:18-19
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    18 They go after our steps so that we may not go in our streets: our end is near, our days are numbered; for our end has come.

    19 Those who went after us were quicker than the eagles of the heaven, driving us before them on the mountains, waiting secretly for us in the waste land.

  • 6 And all her glory has gone from the daughter of Zion: her rulers have become like harts with no place for food, and they have gone in flight without strength before the attacker.

  • 7 A lion has gone up from his secret place in the woods, and one who makes waste the nations is on his way; he has gone out from his place, to make your land unpeopled, so that your towns will be made waste, with no man living in them.

  • 12 Like a lion desiring its food, and like a young lion waiting in secret places.

  • 19 For a sound of weeping goes up from Zion, a cry, How has destruction come on us? we are overcome with shame because we have gone away from our land; he has sent us out from our house.

  • 6 They will be for the birds of the mountains, and for the beasts of the earth: the birds will come down on them in the summer, and the beasts of the earth in the winter.

  • 11 They have made it waste; it is weeping to me, being wasted; all the land is made waste, because no man takes it to heart.

  • 9 In that day your towns will be like the waste places of the Hivites and the Amorites which the children of Israel took for a heritage, and they will come to destruction.

  • 19 You, O Lord, are seated as King for ever; the seat of your power is eternal.

  • 18 What sounds of pain come from the beasts! the herds of cattle are at a loss because there is no grass for them; even the flocks of sheep are no longer to be seen.

  • 39 For this reason the beasts of the waste land with the wolves will make their holes there and the ostriches will be living in it: never again will men be living there, it will be unpeopled from generation to generation.

  • 3 Go up and see the unending destruction; all the evil which your haters have done in the holy place;

  • 14 And on all the high mountains, and on all the hills which are lifted up;

  • 15 Take for us the foxes, the little foxes, which do damage to the vines; our vines have young grapes.

  • 11 Everything has been taken from her, all is gone, she has nothing more: the heart is turned to water, the knees are shaking, all are twisted in pain, and colour has gone from all faces.

  • 15 This is the town which was full of joy, living without fear of danger, saying in her heart, I am, and there is no other: how has she been made waste, a place for beasts to take their rest in! everyone who goes by her will make hisses, waving his hand.

  • 13 But the land will become a waste because of its people, as the fruit of their works.

  • 5 For it is a day of trouble and of crushing down and of destruction from the Lord, the Lord of armies, in the valley of vision; ...

  • 6 They have to get a resting-place in the hollows of the valleys, in holes of the earth and rocks.

  • 4 How long will the land have grief, and the plants of all the land be dry? because of the sins of the people living in it, destruction has overtaken the beasts and the birds; because they said, God does not see our ways.

  • 5 And the roe, giving birth in the field, lets her young one be uncared for, because there is no grass.

  • 28 And he has made his resting-place in the towns which have been pulled down, in houses where no man had a right to be, whose fate was to become masses of broken walls.

  • 11 The old lion comes to his end for need of food, and the young of the she-lion go wandering in all directions.

  • 28 And I will make the land a waste and a cause of wonder, and the pride of her strength will come to an end; and the mountains of Israel will be made waste so that no one will go through.

  • 10 By day and night they go round the town, on the walls; trouble and sorrow are in the heart of it.

  • 7 And he sent destruction on their widows and made waste their towns; and the land and everything in it became waste because of the loud sound of his voice.

  • 11 And now a number of nations have come together against you, and they say, Let her be made unclean and let our eyes see the fate of Zion.

  • 9 All you beasts of the field, come together for your meat, even all you beasts of the wood.

  • 20 The beasts of the field are turning to you with desire: for the water-streams are dry and fire has put an end to the grass-lands of the waste.

  • 5 Up! let us go up by night, and send destruction on her great houses.

  • 21 But the beasts of the waste land will have their holes there; and the houses will be full of crying jackals, and ostriches will have their place there, and evil spirits will be dancing there.