Lamentations 1:4

The roads of Zion mourn because none come to the appointed feasts. 1 All her gates are desolate. Her priests groan. 1 Her virgins are sorrowful and she herself is in complete distress. 1

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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

3After poverty and affliction, Judah has gone into exile. 1 She lives among the nations and finds no rest. 1 All her pursuers overtook her in her desperation. 1

5Her adversaries have become her master; her enemies prosper. 1 Yahweh has afflicted her for her many sins. 1 Her little children go into captivity to her adversary. 1

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Cross References

Isaiah 3:26Jerusalem's gates will lament and mourn; and she will be alone and sit upon the ground.

Isaiah 32:9Rise up, you women who are at ease, and listen to my voice; 1 you carefree daughters, listen to me. 1

Jeremiah 10:22The report of news has arrived, “See! It is coming, a great earthquake is coming from the land of the north 1 To make the cities of Judah into ruins, hideouts for jackals.” 1

Jeremiah 33:10Yahweh says this, 'In this place about which you are now saying, “It is desolate, a place with neither man nor beast,” in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem that are desolate having neither man nor beast, there will be heard again

Lamentations 1:18Yahweh is righteous, for I have rebelled against his commandment. 1 Hear, all you peoples, and see my sorrow. 1 My virgins and my vigorous men have gone into captivity. 1

Lamentations 2:9Her gates have sunk into the ground; he has destroyed and broken the bars of her gate. 1 Her king and her princes are among the nations, the law is no more 1 and her prophets find no vision from Yahweh. 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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