Lamentations 5:18

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.

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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 the 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 people: 8 And at this house, which is high, every one that passeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why hath the LORD done thus unto this land, and to this house?
Ps 74:2-3 : 2 Remember{H8798)} thy congregation, which thou hast purchased{H8804)} of old; the rod of thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed{H8804)}; this mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt{H8804)}. 3 Lift up{H8685)} thy feet unto the perpetual desolations; even all that the enemy{H8802)} hath done wickedly{H8689)} 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 Because the palaces shall be forsaken; the multitude of the city shall be left; the forts and towers 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, and a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.
Jer 17:3 : 3 O my mountain in the field, I will give thy substance and all thy treasures to the spoil, and thy high places for sin, throughout all thy borders.
Jer 26:9 : 9 Why hast thou prophesied in the name of the LORD, saying, This house shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate without an inhabitant? And all the people were gathered against Jeremiah in the house of the LORD.
Jer 52:13 : 13 And burned the house of the LORD, and the king's house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, and all the houses of the great men, burned he with fire:
Lam 2:8-9 : 8 The LORD hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion: he hath stretched out a line, he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying: therefore he made the rampart and the wall to lament; they languished together. 9 Her gates are sunk into the ground; he hath destroyed and broken her bars: her king and her princes are among the Gentiles: the law is no more; her prophets also find no vision from the LORD.

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
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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 the forest.
Ezek 13:4
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4O Israel, thy prophets are like the foxes in the deserts.
Isa 32:13-14
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73%
13Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city:
14Because the palaces shall be forsaken; the multitude of the city shall be left; the forts and towers shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks;
Jer 9:10-11
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73%
10For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none can pass through them; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the fowl of the heavens and the beast are fled; they are gone.
11And I will make Jerusalem heaps, and a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.
Isa 27:10
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10Yet the defenced city shall be desolate, and the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof.
Jer 25:37-38
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37And the peaceable habitations are cut down because of the fierce anger of the LORD.
38He hath forsaken his covert, as the lion: for their land is desolate because of the fierceness of the oppressor, and because of his fierce anger.
Jer 5:6
73%
6Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, and a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over 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
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72%
10Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
11Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is burned up with fire: and all our pleasant things are laid waste.
Job 28:8
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8The lion's whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it.
Ps 80:13
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13The boar out of the wood doth waste{H8762)} it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour{H8799)} it.
Isa 22:1
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1The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee now, that thou art wholly gone up to the housetops?
Ps 63:10
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10They shall fall{H8686)} by the sword: they shall be a portion for foxes.
Ps 104:18
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18The high hills are a refuge for the wild goats; and the rocks for the conies.
Lam 4:18-19
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71%
18They hunt our steps, that we cannot go in our streets: our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come.
19Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.
Lam 1:6
71%
6And from the daughter of Zion all her beauty is departed: her princes are become like harts that find no pasture, and they are gone without strength before the pursuer.
Jer 4:7
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7The lion is come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of the Gentiles is on his way; he is gone forth from his place to make thy land desolate; and thy cities shall be laid waste, without an inhabitant.
Ps 17:12
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12Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.
Jer 9:19
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19For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast us out.
Isa 18:6
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6They shall be left together unto the fowls of the mountains, and to the beasts of the earth: and the fowls shall summer upon them, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them.
Jer 12:11
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11They have made it desolate, and being desolate it mourneth unto me; the whole land is made desolate, because no man layeth it to heart.
Isa 17:9
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9In that day shall his strong cities be as a forsaken bough, and an uppermost branch, which they left because of the children of Israel: and there shall be desolation.
Lam 5:19
70%
19Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.
Joel 1:18
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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
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39Therefore the wild beasts of the desert with the wild beasts of the islands shall dwell there, and the owls 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
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3Lift up{H8685)} thy feet unto the perpetual desolations; even all that the enemy{H8802)} hath done wickedly{H8689)} in the sanctuary.
Isa 2:14
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14And upon all the high mountains, and upon all the hills that are lifted up,
Song 2:15
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15Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines: for our vines have tender grapes.
Nah 2:11
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11Where is the dwelling of the lions, and the feedingplace of the young lions, where the lion, even the old lion, walked, and the lion's whelp, and none made them afraid?
Zeph 2:15
70%
15This is the rejoicing city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart, I am, and there is none beside 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%
13Notwithstanding the land shall be desolate because of them that dwell therein, for the fruit of their doings.
Isa 22:5
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5For it is a day of trouble, and of treading down, and of perplexity by the Lord GOD of hosts in the valley of vision, breaking down the walls, and of crying to the mountains.
Job 30:6
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6To dwell in the clifts of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks.
Jer 12:4
70%
4How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of every field wither, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein? the beasts are consumed, and the birds; because they said, He shall not see our last end.
Jer 14:5
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5Yea, the hind also calved in the field, and forsook it, because there was no grass.
Job 15:28
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28And he dwelleth in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps.
Job 4:11
70%
11The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout lion's whelps are scattered abroad.
Ezek 33:28
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28For I will lay the land most desolate, and the pomp of her strength shall cease; and the mountains of Israel shall be desolate, that none shall pass through.
Ps 55:10
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10Day and night they go about{H8779)} it upon the walls thereof: mischief also and sorrow are in the midst of it.
Ezek 19:7
69%
7And he knew their desolate palaces, and he laid waste their cities; and the land was desolate, and the fulness thereof, by the noise of his roaring.
Mic 4:11
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11Now also many nations are gathered against thee, that say, Let her be defiled, and let our eye look upon Zion.
Isa 56:9
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9All ye beasts of the field, come to devour, yea, all ye beasts in the forest.
Joel 1:20
69%
20The beasts of the field cry also unto thee: for the rivers of waters are dried up, and the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness.
Jer 6:5
69%
5Arise, and let us go by night, and let us destroy her palaces.
Isa 13:21
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21But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there.