Lamentations 1:4

The ways of Zion mourn, 1 Because there are none that come to the feast: 1 All her gates are ruined: 1 Her priests groan, 1 Her virgins are led captive, 1 And she is in bitterness in herself. 1

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In The King James Version

The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitterness.

In Context

3Judea is gone into captivity by reason of her affliction, 1 And by reason of the abundance of her servitude: 1 She dwells among the nations, 1 She has not found rest: 1 All her pursuers have overtaken her between her oppressors. 1

5Her oppressors are become the head, 1 And her enemies have prospered; 1 For the Lord has afflicted her 1 Because of the multitude of her sins: 1 Her young children are gone into captivity 1 Before the face of the oppressor. 1

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Cross References

Isaiah 3:26And the stores of your ornaments shall mourn, and thou shalt be left alone, and shalt be leveled with the ground.

Isaiah 32:9Rise up, ye rich women, and hear my voice; ye confident daughters, hearken to my words.

Jeremiah 10:22Behold, there comes a sound of a noise, and a great earthquake from the land of the north, to make the cities of Judah a desolation, and a resting place for ostriches.

Jeremiah 33:10And the princes of Judah heard this word, and they went up out of the house of the king to the house of the Lord, and sat in the entrance of the new gate.

Lamentations 1:18The Lord is righteous; 1 For I have provoked his mouth: 1 Hear, I pray you, all people, 1 And behold my grief: 1 My virgins and my young men 1 Are gone into captivity. 1

Lamentations 2:9Her gates are sunk into the ground: 1 He has destroyed and broken to pieces her bars, 1 And her king and her prince among the Gentiles: 1 There is no law, 1 Nay, her prophets have seen no vision from the Lord. 1

Matthew Henry on Lamentations 1:2-12

Lamentations Since what Solomon says, though contrary to the common opinion of the world, is certainly true, that sorrow is better than laughter, and it is better to go to the house of mourning than to the house of feasting, we should come to the reading and consideration of the melancholy chapters of this book, not only willingly, but with an expectation to edify ourselves by them; and, that we may do this, we must compose ourselves to a holy sadness and resolve to weep with the weeping prophet. Let us consider,… Read the whole commentary →

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