Lamentations 1:4
Lamentations · Old Testament · Chapter 1
“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.”Lamentations 1:4
What Does Lamentations 1:4 Mean?
Lamentations 1:4 is found in the book of Lamentations, chapter 1, verse 4 of the Old Testament. This verse connects to 20 other passages through cross-references, placing it within a rich network of biblical meaning.
Key themes in this passage include Lament.
Cross-References (20)
These passages are connected to Lamentations 1:4 through shared themes, quotations, or prophetic fulfillment.
Lamentations 2:6“And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden: he hath destroyed his places of the assembly: the LORD hath caused the solemn feasts and sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion, and hath despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest.”Isaiah 3:26“And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she being desolate shall sit upon the ground.”Jeremiah 9:11“And I will make Jerusalem heaps, and a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.”Joel 1:8“Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.”Leviticus 26:22“I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number; and your high ways shall be desolate.”Judges 5:6“In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied, and the travellers walked through byways.”Isaiah 24:4“The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, the haughty people of the earth do languish.”Jeremiah 10:22“Behold, the noise of the bruit is come, and a great commotion out of the north country, to make the cities of Judah desolate, and a den of dragons.”Jeremiah 14:2“Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish; they are black unto the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.”Lamentations 1:8“Jerusalem hath grievously sinned; therefore she is removed: all that honoured her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness: yea, she sigheth, and turneth backward.”Lamentations 1:21“They have heard that I sigh: there is none to comfort me: all mine enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that thou hast done it: thou wilt bring the day that thou hast called, and they shall be like unto me.”Lamentations 2:10“The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, and keep silence: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.”Zephaniah 3:18“I will gather them that are sorrowful for the solemn assembly, who are of thee, to whom the reproach of it was a burden.”Leviticus 23:2“Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, Concerning the feasts of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, even these are my feasts.”Psalms 144:14“That our oxen may be strong to labour; that there be no breaking in, nor going out; that there be no complaining in our streets.”Isaiah 24:12“In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.”Isaiah 27:10“Yet the defenced city shall be desolate, and the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof.”Isaiah 32:9“Rise up, ye women that are at ease; hear my voice, ye careless daughters; give ear unto my speech.”Isaiah 33:8“The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant, he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man.”Jeremiah 33:10“Thus saith the LORD; Again there shall be heard in this place, which ye say shall be desolate without man and without beast, even in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, that are desolate, without man, and without inhabitant, and without beast,”
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