Lamentations 1:6

Beauty has left the daughter of Zion. 1 Her princes have become like deer that cannot find pasture, 1 and they go without strength before their pursuer. 1

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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 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

7In the days of her affliction and her homelessness, Jerusalem will call to mind 1 all her precious treasures that she had in former days. 1 When her people fell into the hand of the adversary, no one helped her. 1 The adversaries saw her and laughed at her destruction. 1

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Cross References

Leviticus 26:36As for those of you who are left in your enemies' lands, I will send fear into your hearts so that even the sound of a leaf blowing in the wind will startle you, and you will flee as though you were fleeing from the sword. You will fall, even when no one is chasing you.

Deuteronomy 32:30How could one chase a thousand, 1 and two put ten thousand to flight, 1 unless their Rock had sold them, 1 and Yahweh had given them up? 1

2 Samuel 4:11How much more, when wicked men have killed an innocent person in his own house on his bed, should I not now require his blood from your hand, and remove you from the earth?”

Psalms 44:9But now you have thrown us off and brought us dishonor, 1 and you do not go out with our armies. 1

Psalms 50:2Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, 1 God has shone. 1

Psalms 132:12If your sons keep my covenant 1 and the laws that I will teach them, 1 their children also will sit on your throne 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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