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Lamentations 1:6

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.

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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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16 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
וַיֵּצֵ֥אvai.ye.Tze'and it has gone outH3318 →
מִבַּתmi.vat-from [the] daughter ofH1323 →
צִיּ֖וֹןtzi.YonZionH6726 →
כָּל־kol-allH3605 →
הֲדָרָ֑הּha.da.Rahsplendor herH1926 →
הָי֣וּha.Yuthey have becomeH1961 →
שָׂרֶ֗יהָsa.Rei.haprinces herH8269 →
כְּאַיָּלִים֙ke.'ai.ya.Limlike deerH354 →
לֹא־lo'-[which] notH3808 →
מָצְא֣וּma.tze.'Uthey have foundH4672 →
מִרְעֶ֔הmir.'EhpastureH4829 →
וַיֵּלְכ֥וּvai.ye.le.Khuand they have goneH1980 →
בְלֹא־ve.lo'-with notH3808 →
כֹ֖חַKho.achstrengthH3581 →
לִפְנֵ֥יlif.Nei<to> beforeH6440 →
רוֹדֵֽף׃ סro.Defa pursuerH7291 →

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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,Ezekiel 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.’Jeremiah 52:13He burned down the house of the LORD, the royal palace, and all the houses of Jerusalem—every significant building.Jeremiah 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.Ezekiel 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.Psalms 44:9–11But You have rejected and humbled us; You no longer go forth with our armies.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!”Jeremiah 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.Jeremiah 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.Jeremiah 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:Psalms 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.”Jeremiah 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.Joshua 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.Psalms 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.Isaiah 1:21See how the faithful city has become a harlot! She once was full of justice; righteousness resided within her, but now only murderers!Isaiah 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,Psalms 96:9Worship the LORD in the splendor of His holiness; tremble before Him, all the earth.Leviticus 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.

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