Lamentations 5:18
Lamentations · Old Testament · Chapter 5
“Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.”Lamentations 5:18
What Does Lamentations 5:18 Mean?
Lamentations 5:18 is found in the book of Lamentations, chapter 5, verse 18 of the Old Testament. This verse connects to 20 other passages through cross-references, placing it within a rich network of biblical meaning.
Cross-References (20)
These passages are connected to Lamentations 5:18 through shared themes, quotations, or prophetic fulfillment.
Judges 15:4“And Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took firebrands, and turned tail to tail, and put a firebrand in the midst between two tails.”Daniel 9:17“Now therefore, O our God, hear the prayer of thy servant, and his supplications, and cause thy face to shine upon thy sanctuary that is desolate, for the Lord’s sake.”Micah 3:12“Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.”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.”Luke 21:6“As for these things which ye behold, the days will come, in the which there shall not be left one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.”Leviticus 26:32“And I will bring the land into desolation: and your enemies which dwell therein shall be astonished at it.”1 Kings 9:7“Then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all people:”Psalms 74:2“Remember thy congregation, which thou hast purchased of old; the rod of thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed; this mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt.”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 32:13“Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city:”Isaiah 64:10“Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.”Jeremiah 17:3“O my mountain in the field, I will give thy substance and all thy treasures to the spoil, and thy high places for sin, throughout all thy borders.”Jeremiah 26:9“Why hast thou prophesied in the name of the LORD, saying, This house shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate without an inhabitant? And all the people were gathered against Jeremiah in the house of the LORD.”Jeremiah 44:2“Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Ye have seen all the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, and upon all the cities of Judah; and, behold, this day they are a desolation, and no man dwelleth therein,”Jeremiah 52:13“And burned the house of the LORD, and the king’s house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, and all the houses of the great men, burned he with fire:”Lamentations 2:8“The LORD hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion: he hath stretched out a line, he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying: therefore he made the rampart and the wall to lament; they languished together.”Ezekiel 5:14“Moreover I will make thee waste, and a reproach among the nations that are round about thee, in the sight of all that pass by.”Ezekiel 12:20“And the cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and the land shall be desolate; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.”Nehemiah 4:3“Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, Even that which they build, if a fox go up, he shall even break down their stone wall.”
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