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Jeremiah 14:2

“Judah mourns and her gates languish. Her people wail for the land, and a cry goes up from Jerusalem.

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ASV

Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish, they sit in black upon the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.

KJV

Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish; they are black unto the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.

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9 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
אָבְלָ֣ה'a.ve.Lahit is in mourningH56 →
יְהוּדָ֔הye.hu.DahJudahH3063 →
וּשְׁעָרֶ֥יהָu.she.'a.Rei.haand gates itsH8179 →
אֻמְלְל֖וּ'um.le.Luthey are languishingH535 →
קָדְר֣וּka.de.Ruthey are in mourningH6937 →
לָאָ֑רֶץla.'A.retzto the earthH776 →
וְצִוְחַ֥תve.tziv.Chatand [the] outcry ofH6682 →
יְרוּשָׁלִַ֖םye.ru.sha.LimJerusalemH3389 →
עָלָֽתָה׃'a.La.tahit has gone upH5927 →

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Isaiah 3:26And the gates of Zion will lament and mourn; destitute, she will sit on the ground.Jeremiah 8:21For the brokenness of the daughter of my people I am crushed. I mourn; horror has gripped me.1 Samuel 5:12Those who did not die were afflicted with tumors, and the outcry of the city went up to heaven.Lamentations 4:8–9But now their appearance is blacker than soot; they are not recognized in the streets. Their skin has shriveled on their bones; it has become as dry as a stick.Zechariah 7:13And just as I had called and they would not listen, so when they called I would not listen, says the LORD of Hosts.Lamentations 2:8The LORD determined to destroy the wall of the Daughter of Zion. He stretched out a measuring line and did not withdraw His hand from destroying. He made the ramparts and walls lament; together they waste away.Jeremiah 11:11Therefore this is what the LORD says: ‘I am about to bring upon them a disaster that they cannot escape. They will cry out to Me, but I will not listen to them.Jeremiah 46:12The nations have heard of your shame, and your outcry fills the earth, because warrior stumbles over warrior and both of them have fallen together.”Lamentations 1:4The roads to Zion mourn, because no one comes to her appointed feasts. All her gates are deserted; her priests groan, her maidens grieve, and she herself is bitter with anguish.Jeremiah 12:11They have made it a desolation; desolate before Me, it mourns. All the land is laid waste, but no man takes it to heart.Lamentations 5:10Our skin is as hot as an oven with fever from our hunger.Isaiah 15:5My heart cries out over Moab; her fugitives flee as far as Zoar, as far as Eglath-shelishiyah. With weeping they ascend the slope of Luhith; they lament their destruction on the road to Horonaim.Isaiah 24:4The earth mourns and withers; the world languishes and fades; the exalted of the earth waste away.Hosea 4:3Therefore the land mourns, and all who dwell in it will waste away with the beasts of the field and the birds of the air; even the fish of the sea disappear.Isaiah 33:9The land mourns and languishes; Lebanon is ashamed and decayed. Sharon is like a desert; Bashan and Carmel shake off their leaves.Exodus 2:24So God heard their groaning, and He remembered His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.Jeremiah 12:4How long will the land mourn and the grass of every field be withered? Because of the evil of its residents, the animals and birds have been swept away, for the people have said, “He cannot see what our end will be.”Isaiah 5:7For the vineyard of the LORD of Hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are the plant of His delight. He looked for justice, but saw bloodshed; for righteousness, but heard a cry of distress.

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