Lamentations 5:18

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Mic 3:12 : 12 Therefore for your sake Zion shall 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 I will cut off Israel from the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed for My name, I will cast out of My sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all people: 8 And at this house, which is exalted, everyone who passes by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why has the LORD done this to this land and to this house?
  • Ps 74:2-3 : 2 Remember Your congregation, which You have purchased of old; the rod of Your inheritance, which You have redeemed; this Mount Zion, where You have dwelt. 3 Lift up Your feet to the perpetual desolations; even all that the enemy has done wickedly in the sanctuary.
  • Isa 32:13-14 : 13 Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yes, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city: 14 Because the palaces shall be forsaken; the bustle of the city shall be abandoned; the forts and towers shall become dens forever, a joy of wild donkeys, a pasture of flocks;
  • Jer 9:11 : 11 And I will make Jerusalem heaps, 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 your substance and all your treasures to the spoil, and your high places for sin, throughout all your borders.
  • Jer 26:9 : 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 an inhabitant? And all the people 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, he burned with fire:
  • Lam 2:8-9 : 8 The Lord has purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion: He has stretched out a line, He has not withdrawn His hand from destroying: therefore He made the rampart and the wall to lament; they languished together. 9 Her gates have sunk into the ground; He has 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.

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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 for your sake Zion shall 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, your prophets are like the foxes in the deserts.

  • Isa 32:13-14
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    13Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yes, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city:

    14Because the palaces shall be forsaken; the bustle of the city shall be abandoned; the forts and towers shall become dens forever, a joy of wild donkeys, a pasture of flocks;

  • Jer 9:10-11
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    10For the mountains I will 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 birds of the heavens and the beasts have fled; they are gone.

    11And I will make Jerusalem heaps, 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 fortified city shall be desolate, the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall it lie down and consume its branches.

  • Jer 25:37-38
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    37And the peaceful habitations are cut down because of the fierce anger of the LORD.

    38He has forsaken His shelter, like a lion; for their land is desolate because of the fierceness of the oppressor, and because of His fierce anger.

  • Jer 5:6
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    6Therefore 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: everyone that goes out from there shall be torn in pieces: because their transgressions are many, and their backslidings have increased.

  • Isa 64:10-11
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    10Your holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.

    11Our holy and beautiful house, where our fathers praised you, is burned up with fire: and all our pleasant things are laid waste.

  • Job 28:8
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    8The lion's cubs have not trodden it, nor has the fierce lion passed by it.

  • Ps 80:13
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    13The boar out of the woods destroys it, and the wild beasts of the field devour it.

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    1The burden of the valley of vision. What troubles you now, that you have all gone up to the rooftops?

  • Ps 63:10
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    10They shall fall 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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    18They hunted our steps, so that we could not walk in our streets; our end drew near, our days were fulfilled, for our end came.

    19Our persecutors were swifter than the eagles of the sky; they pursued us on the mountains, they lay in wait for us in the wilderness.

  • Lam 1:6
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    6And from the daughter of Zion all her beauty is departed: her princes have become like deer that find no pasture, and they have gone without strength before the pursuer.

  • Jer 4:7
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    7The lion has come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of the nations is on his way; he has gone forth from his place to make your land desolate; and your cities shall be laid waste, without an inhabitant.

  • Ps 17:12
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    12Like a lion that is eager for its prey, and as 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 ruined! 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 to the birds of the mountains, and to the beasts of the earth: and the birds shall summer upon them, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them.

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    11They have made it desolate, and being desolate it mourns to Me; the whole land is made desolate, because no one lays it to heart.

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    9In that day his strong cities shall be as a forsaken bough, and an uppermost branch, which they left because of the children of Israel: and there shall be desolation.

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    19You, O LORD, remain forever; Your throne endures from generation to generation.

  • Joel 1:18
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    18How the animals groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture; yes, 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 forever; neither shall it be lived in from generation to generation.

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    3Lift up Your feet to the perpetual desolations; even all that the enemy has done wickedly 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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    15Catch 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 feeding place of the young lions, where the lion, even the old lion, walked, and the lion's cub, and none made them afraid?

  • Zeph 2:15
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    15This is the rejoicing city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart, I am, and there is none besides me: how has she become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in! Everyone that passes by her shall hiss, and shake his hand.

  • Mic 7:13
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    13Yet the land shall be desolate because of those who dwell in it, for the fruit of their doings.

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    5For it is a day of trouble and of trampling down and of perplexity by the Lord GOD of hosts in the valley of vision, breaking down the walls and crying to the mountains.

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    6To dwell in the clefts of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks.

  • Jer 12:4
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    4How long will the land mourn and the herbs of every field wither, because of the wickedness of those who dwell in it? The beasts and the birds are consumed, because they said, 'He will not see our final end.'

  • Jer 14:5
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    5Even the deer gave birth in the field, and abandoned it, because there was no grass.

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    28And he dwells in desolate cities, and in houses which no one inhabits, which are ready to become heaps.

  • Job 4:11
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    11The old lion perishes for lack of prey, and the cubs of the stout lion are scattered abroad.

  • Ezek 33:28
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    28For I will make the land most desolate, and the pride of her strength shall cease; and the mountains of Israel shall be desolate, that no one shall pass through.

  • Ps 55:10
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    10Day and night they go about it upon its walls; mischief and sorrow are in the midst of it.

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    7And he knew their desolate palaces, and he laid waste their cities; the land was desolate, with all its fullness, by the noise of his roaring.

  • Mic 4:11
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    11Now also are many nations gathered against you, that say, 'Let her be defiled, and let our eyes gaze upon Zion.'

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    9All you beasts of the field, come to devour, yes, all you beasts in the forest.

  • Joel 1:20
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    20The animals of the field cry also to you: for the rivers are dried up, and the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness.

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    5Arise, and let us go by night, and let us destroy her palaces.

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    21But wild beasts of the desert will lie there; and their houses will be full of doleful creatures; and owls will dwell there, and satyrs will dance there.