Lamentations 1:6

And all her beauty has been taken away 1 From the daughter of Zion: 1 Her princes were as rams finding no pasture, 1 And are gone away in weakness 1 Before the face of the pursuer. 1

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

And 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.

In Context

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

7Jerusalem remembered the days of her affliction, 1 And her rejection; 1 She thought on all her desirable things 1 Which were from the days of old, 1 When her people fell into the hands of the oppressor, 1 And there was none to help her: 1 When her enemies saw it 1 They laughed at her habitation. 1

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Cross References

Leviticus 26:36And to those who are left of you I will bring bondage into their heart in the land of their enemies; and the sound of a shaken leaf shall chase them, and they shall flee as fleeing from war, and shall fall when none pursues them.

Deuteronomy 32:30How should one pursue a thousand, 1 And two rout tens of thousands, 1 If God had not sold them, 1 And the Lord delivered them up? 1

2 Samuel 4:11And now evil men have slain a righteous man in his house on his bed: now then I will require his blood of your hand, and I will destroy you from off the earth.

Psalms 44:9Myrrh, and stacte, and cassia are exhaled from thy garments, 1 And out of the ivory palaces, 1

Psalms 50:2when Nathan the prophet came to him, when he had gone in to Bathsheba. 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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