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Lamentations 1:6

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All the splendor has departed from the Daughter of Zion. Her princes are like deer that find no pasture; they lack the strength to flee in the face of the hunter.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And from the daughter of Zion all her majesty is departed: Her princes are become like harts that find no pasture, And they are gone without strength before the pursuer.

KJV

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.

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This verse in Lamentations 1

Commentary

3 notes on this verse
Her princes ... - Jeremiah had before his mind the sad flight of Zedekiah and his men of war, and their capture within a few miles of Jerusalem Jer 39:4-5.

This site's exposition

The ways of Zion do mourn

on Lamentations 1:4-6

The roads to Jerusalem are personified in grief, the ways of Zion mourning because no pilgrims travel them to the solemn feasts, the pilgrim festivals of the Law now attended by no one at all. Priests sigh and virgins are afflicted, the temple's own personnel and its youngest witnesses named together, the roads standing as silent evidence of a calendar broken. Her princes, once the strength of the nation, are now like harts that find no pasture, fugitives too weak to outrun the pursuer, a figure the commentators take from the hunted deer of the wilderness rather than the palace.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

The beauty of holiness was the beauty of the daughter of Zion; when the temple, that holy and beautiful house, was destroyed, her beauty was gone; that was the breaking of the staff of beauty, the taking away of the pledges and seals of the covenant, Zech. xi.

The words behind it

16 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַיֵּצֵ֥אand it has gone out

    vaiyetze'H3318 →1067 times

  • מִבַּתfrom [the] daughter of

    mivat-H1323 →588 times

  • צִיּ֖וֹןZion

    tziyonH6726 →154 times

  • כָּל־all

    kol-H3605 →5413 times

  • הֲדָרָ֑הּsplendor her

    hadarahH1926 →

  • הָי֣וּthey have become

    hayuH1961 →3559 times

  • שָׂרֶ֗יהָprinces her

    sareihaH8269 →421 times

  • כְּאַיָּלִים֙like deer

    keaiyalimH354 →

  • לֹא־[which] not

    lo'-H3808 →5168 times

  • מָצְא֣וּthey have found

    matzeuH4672 →455 times

  • מִרְעֶ֔הpasture

    mirehH4829 →

  • וַיֵּלְכ֥וּand they have gone

    vaiyelekhuH1980 →1546 times

  • בְלֹא־with not

    velo'-H3808 →5168 times

  • כֹ֖חַstrength

    khoachH3581 →

  • לִפְנֵ֥י<to> before

    lifneiH6440 →2123 times

  • רוֹדֵֽף׃ סa pursuer

    rodefH7291 →143 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

18 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

Ezekiel 24:25And you, son of man, know that on the day I take away their stronghold, their pride and joy—the desire of their eyes which uplifted their souls—and their sons and daughters as well,3 worksEzekiel 24:21Tell the house of Israel that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘I am about to desecrate My sanctuary, the pride of your power, the desire of your eyes, and the delight of your soul. And the sons and daughters you left behind will fall by the sword.’2 worksJeremiah 52:13He burned down the house of the LORD, the royal palace, and all the houses of Jerusalem—every significant building.2 worksJeremiah 51:30–32The warriors of Babylon have stopped fighting; they sit in their strongholds. Their strength is exhausted; they have become like women. Babylon’s homes have been set ablaze, the bars of her gates are broken.2 worksEzekiel 7:20–22His beautiful ornaments they transformed into pride and used them to fashion their vile images and detestable idols. Therefore I will make these into something unclean for them.2 worksPsalms 44:9–11But You have rejected and humbled us; You no longer go forth with our armies.2 works
The other 12 cross-references, with their words ▾
2 Samuel 4:11–12How much more, when wicked men kill a righteous man in his own house and on his own bed, shall I not now require his blood from your hands and remove you from the earth!”2 worksJeremiah 52:11Then he put out Zedekiah’s eyes, bound him with bronze shackles, and took him to Babylon, where he kept him in custody until his dying day.2 worksJeremiah 48:41Kirioth has been taken, and the strongholds seized. In that day the heart of Moab’s warriors will be like the heart of a woman in labor.2 worksJeremiah 29:4This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says to all the exiles who were carried away from Jerusalem to Babylon:2 worksPsalms 132:12–13If your sons keep My covenant and the testimony I will teach them, then their sons will also sit on your throne forever and ever.”2 worksJeremiah 47:3at the sound of the galloping hooves of stallions, the rumbling of chariots, and the clatter of their wheels. The fathers will not turn back for their sons; their hands will hang limp.2 worksJoshua 7:12–13This is why the Israelites cannot stand against their enemies. They will turn their backs and run from their enemies, because they themselves have been set apart for destruction. I will no longer be with you unless you remove from among you whatever is devoted to destruction.2 worksPsalms 48:2–3Beautiful in loftiness, the joy of all the earth, like the peaks of Zaphon is Mount Zion, the city of the great King.2 worksIsaiah 1:21See how the faithful city has become a harlot! She once was full of justice; righteousness resided within her, but now only murderers!2 worksIsaiah 4:5Then the LORD will create over all of Mount Zion and over her assemblies a cloud of smoke by day and a glowing flame of fire by night. For over all the glory there will be a canopy,2 worksPsalms 96:9Worship the LORD in the splendor of His holiness; tremble before Him, all the earth.2 worksLeviticus 26:36–37As for those of you who survive, I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies, so that even the sound of a windblown leaf will put them to flight. And they will flee as one flees the sword, and fall when no one pursues them.2 works

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Ezekiel 24:21

    Tell the house of Israel that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘I am about to desecrate My sanctuary, the pride of your power, the desire of your eyes, and the delight of…

    it leads to

    • Ezekiel 23:47

      The mob will stone them and cut them down with their swords. They will kill their sons and daughters and burn down their houses.

    • Ezekiel 23:25

      And I will set My jealous rage against you, and they will deal with you in fury. They will cut off your noses and ears, and your survivors will fall by the sword. They…

    • Jeremiah 7:14

      therefore what I did to Shiloh I will now do to the house that bears My Name, the house in which you trust, the place that I gave to you and your fathers.

    • Psalms 27:4

      One thing I have asked of the LORD; this is what I desire: to dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to gaze on the beauty of the…

  • Through

    Jeremiah 52:13

    He burned down the house of the LORD, the royal palace, and all the houses of Jerusalem—every significant building.

    it leads to

    • 2 Chronicles 36:19

      Then the Chaldeans set fire to the house of God and broke down the wall of Jerusalem. They burned down all the palaces and destroyed every article of value.

    • Micah 3:12

      Therefore, because of you, Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble, and the temple mount a wooded ridge.

    • Psalms 79:1

      The nations, O God, have invaded Your inheritance; they have defiled Your holy temple and reduced Jerusalem to rubble.

  • Through

    Ezekiel 24:25

    And you, son of man, know that on the day I take away their stronghold, their pride and joy—the desire of their eyes which uplifted their souls—and their sons and daughters as well,

    it leads to

    • Ezekiel 24:21

      Tell the house of Israel that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘I am about to desecrate My sanctuary, the pride of your power, the desire of your eyes, and the delight of…

Where this verse is studied

About Lamentations

People Mourn over the Destruction of Jerusalem — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
People Mourn over the Destruction of Jerusalem — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
Lamentations: the study guide →Read Lamentations 1 →

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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