Lamentations 5:18

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

For the mount of Zion -- that is desolate, Foxes have gone up on it.

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  • Mic 3:12 : 12 Therefore, for your sake, Zion is ploughed a field, and Jerusalem is heaps, And the mount of the house `is' for high places of a forest!
  • 1 Kgs 9:7-8 : 7 then I have cut off Israel from the face of the ground that I have given to them, and the house that I have hallowed for My name I send away from My presence, and Israel hath been for a simile and for a byword among all the peoples; 8 as to this house, `that' is high, every one passing by it is astonished, and hath hissed, and they have said, Wherefore hath Jehovah done thus to this land and to this house?
  • Ps 74:2-3 : 2 Remember Thy company. Thou didst purchase of old, Thou didst redeem the rod of Thy inheritance, This mount Zion -- Thou didst dwell in it. 3 Lift up Thy steps to the perpetual desolations, Everything the enemy did wickedly in the sanctuary.
  • Isa 32:13-14 : 13 Over the ground of my people thorn -- brier goeth up, Surely over all houses of joy of the exulting city, 14 Surely the palace hath been left, The multitude of the city forsaken, Fort and watch-tower hath been for dens unto the age, A joy of wild asses -- a pasture of herds;
  • Jer 9:11 : 11 And I make Jerusalem become heaps, A habitation of dragons, And the cities of Judah I make a desolation, Without inhabitant.
  • Jer 17:3 : 3 O My mountain in the field -- thy strength, All thy treasures -- for a prey I give, Thy high places for sin in all thy borders.
  • Jer 26:9 : 9 Wherefore hast thou prophesied in the name of Jehovah, saying, `As Shiloh this house shall be, and this city is wasted, without inhabitant?' and all the people are assembled unto Jeremiah in the house of Jehovah.
  • Jer 52:13 : 13 and he burneth the house of Jehovah, and the house of the king, and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house he hath burned with fire,
  • Lam 2:8-9 : 8 Devised hath Jehovah to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion, He hath stretched out a line, He hath not turned His hand from destroying, And He causeth bulwark and wall to mourn, Together -- they have been weak. 9 Sunk into the earth have her gates, He hath destroyed and broken her bars, Her king and her princes `are' among the nations, There is no law, also her prophets Have not found vision from Jehovah.

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  • 17 For this hath our heart been sick, For these have our eyes been dim.

  • 12 Therefore, for your sake, Zion is ploughed a field, and Jerusalem is heaps, And the mount of the house `is' for high places of a forest!

  • 4 As foxes in the wastes, Thy prophets, O Israel, have been.

  • Isa 32:13-14
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    13 Over the ground of my people thorn -- brier goeth up, Surely over all houses of joy of the exulting city,

    14 Surely the palace hath been left, The multitude of the city forsaken, Fort and watch-tower hath been for dens unto the age, A joy of wild asses -- a pasture of herds;

  • Jer 9:10-11
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    10 For the mountains I lift up weeping and wailing, And for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, For they have been burnt up without any passing over, Nor have they heard the voice of cattle, From the fowl of the heavens unto the beast they have fled, they have gone.

    11 And I make Jerusalem become heaps, A habitation of dragons, And the cities of Judah I make a desolation, Without inhabitant.

  • 10 For the fenced city `is' alone, A habitation cast out and forsaken as a wilderness, There doth the calf delight, And there it lieth down, And hath consumed its branches.

  • Jer 25:37-38
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    37 And the peaceable habitations have been cut down, Because of the fierceness of the anger of Jehovah.

    38 He hath forsaken, as a young lion, His covert, Surely their land hath become a desolation, Because of the oppressing fierceness, And because of the fierceness of His anger!

  • 6 Therefore smitten them hath a lion out of the forest, A wolf of the deserts doth spoil them, A leopard is watching over their cities, Every one who is going out of them is torn, For many have been their transgressions, Mighty have been their backslidings.

  • Isa 64:10-11
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    10 Thy holy cities have been a wilderness, Zion a wilderness hath been, Jerusalem a desolation.

    11 Our holy and our beautiful house, Where praise Thee did our fathers, Hath become burnt with fire, And all our desirable things have become a waste.

  • 8 Nor trodden it have the sons of pride, Not passed over it hath the fierce lion.

  • 13 A boar out of the forest doth waste it, And a wild beast of the fields consumeth it.

  • 1 The burden of the Valley of Vision. What -- to thee, now, that thou hast gone up, All of thee -- to the roofs?

  • 10 They cause him to run on the edge of the sword, A portion for foxes they are.

  • 18 The high hills `are' for wild goats, Rocks `are' a refuge for conies,

  • Lam 4:18-19
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    18 They have hunted our steps from going in our broad-places, Near hath been our end, fulfilled our days, For come hath our end.

    19 Swifter have been our pursuers, Than the eagles of the heavens, On the mountains they have burned `after' us, In the wilderness they have laid wait for us.

  • 6 And go out from the daughter of Zion doth all her honour, Her princes have been as harts -- They have not found pasture, And they go powerless before a pursuer.

  • 7 Gone up hath a lion from his thicket, And a destroyer of nations hath journeyed, He hath come forth from his place To make thy land become a desolation, Thy cities are laid waste, without inhabitant.

  • 12 His likeness as a lion desirous to tear, As a young lion dwelling in secret places.

  • 19 For -- a voice of wailing is heard from Zion: How have we been spoiled! We have been greatly ashamed, Because we have forsaken the land, Because they have cast down our tabernacles.

  • 6 They are left together to the ravenous fowl of the mountains, And to the beast of the earth, And summered on them hath the ravenous fowl, And every beast of the earth wintereth on them.

  • 11 He hath made it become a desolation, The desolation hath mourned unto Me, Desolated hath been all the land, But there is no one laying it to heart.

  • 9 In that day are the cities of his strength As the forsaken thing of the forest, And the branch that they have left, Because of the sons of Israel, It also hath been a desolation.

  • 19 Thou, O Jehovah, to the age remainest, Thy throne to generation and generation.

  • 18 How have cattle sighed! Perplexed have been droves of oxen, For there is no pasture for them, Also droves of sheep have been desolated.

  • 39 Therefore dwell do Ziim with Iim, Yea, dwelt in her have daughters of the ostrich, And it is not inhabited any more for ever, Nor dwelt in unto all generations.

  • 3 Lift up Thy steps to the perpetual desolations, Everything the enemy did wickedly in the sanctuary.

  • 14 And for all the high mountains, And for all the exalted heights,

  • 15 Seize ye for us foxes, Little foxes -- destroyers of vineyards, Even our sweet-smelling vineyards.

  • 11 Where `is' the habitation of lionesses? And a feeding-place it `is' for young lions Where walked hath a lion, an old lion, A lion's whelp, and there is none troubling.

  • 15 This `is' the exulting city that is dwelling confidently, That is saying in her heart, `I `am', and beside me there is none,' How hath she been for a desolation, A crouching-place for beasts, Every one passing by her doth hiss, He doth shake his hand!

  • 13 And the land hath been for a desolation, Because of its inhabitants, Because of the fruit of their doings.

  • 5 For a day of noise, and of treading down, And of perplexity, `is' to the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts, In the valley of vision, digging down a wall, And crying unto the mountain.

  • 6 In a frightful place of valleys to dwell, Holes of earth and clefts.

  • 4 Till when doth the earth mourn, And the herb of the whole field wither? For the wickedness of those dwelling in it, Consumed have been beast and fowl, Because they said, `He doth not see our latter end.'

  • 5 For even the hind in the field hath brought forth -- to forsake `it!' For there hath been no grass.

  • 28 And he inhabiteth cities cut off, houses not dwelt in, That have been ready to become heaps.

  • 11 An old lion is perishing without prey, And the whelps of the lioness do separate.

  • 28 And I have made the land a desolation and an astonishment, And ceased hath the excellency of its strength, And desolated have been mountains of Israel, Without any one passing through.

  • 10 By day and by night they go round it, on its walls. Both iniquity and perverseness `are' in its midst,

  • 7 And it knoweth his forsaken habitations, And their cities it hath laid waste, And desolate is the land and its fulness, Because of the voice of his roaring.

  • 11 And now, gathered against thee have been many nations, who are saying: `Let her be defiled, and our eyes look on Zion.'

  • 9 Every beast of the field, Come to devour, every beast in the forest.

  • 20 Also the cattle of the field long for Thee, For dried up have been streams of water, And fire hath consumed comely places of a wilderness!'

  • 5 `Rise, and we go up by night, And we destroy her palaces.'

  • 21 And Ziim have lain down there, And full have been their houses of howlings, And dwelt there have daughters of an ostrich, And goats do skip there.