Lamentations 1:6

And from Bat Tziyon 1 all her beauty has departed; 1 her sarim (princes) are become like deer 1 that find no pasture, 1 and they are gone without strength 1 before the rodef (persecutor, pursuer). 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

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 adversaries are now the rosh (supreme, master); 1 her enemies prosper; 1 for Hashem hath afflicted her 1 because of the multitude of her peysha'im (transgressions); 1 her olalim (little children) are gone 1 into captivity before the enemy. 1

7In the yamim (days) of her affliction 1 and of her persecutions, 1 Yerushalayim remembers all her pleasant things 1 that she had miymei kedem (in the days of old). 1 When her people fell into the hand of the enemy, 1 and there was no ozer (helper) for her, 1 the adversaries saw her, 1 and did mock at her downfall. 1

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Cross References

Leviticus 26:36And upon them that are left alive of you I will send a fearful faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; and the sound of a shaken leaf shall chase them; and they shall flee, as fleeing from a cherev; and they shall fall v'ein rodef (when none pursueth, persecutes).

Deuteronomy 32:30How should echad chase an elef (thousand), 1 and shnayim (two) put ten thousand to flight, 1 except their tzur had sold them, 1 and Hashem had shut them up? 1

2 Samuel 4:11How much more, when anashim resha'im have slain an ish tzaddik in his own bais upon his mishkav (bed)? Shall I not therefore now require his dahm of your yad, and take you away from HaAretz?

Psalms 44:9In Elohim we boast kol hayom, 1 and praise Thy Shem l'olam (forever). 1 Selah 1

Psalms 50:2Out of Tziyon, the perfection of yofi, 1 Elohim shineth forth. 1

Psalms 132:12If thy Banim are shomer over My Brit 1 and My Edot that I shall teach them, 1 their Banim shall also sit upon thy kisse adei-ad (forevermore). 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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