Lamentations 1:4

The Desolate City

³ Judah went into captivity because of affliction, and from great slavery. She dwells among the nations; she finds no rest; all her pursuers have overtaken her between the narrows. ⁴ The roads of Zion mourn without any going to the appointed feasts. All her gates are deserted; her priests sigh; her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitterness. ⁵ Her enemies have become as chief; her haters are at ease; for Jehovah has afflicted her for the multitude of her sins. Her children have gone, captive before the enemy.

Appointed Feasts

Appointed Time

City Gate

Solemn Assembly

No

Zion

Jeremiah 9:11

And I will make Jerusalem ruins, a den of jackals; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without a living soul.

Joel 1:8-13

Weep like a virgin clothed with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.

Isaiah 24:4-6

The earth mourns and languishes; the world droops and languishes; the proud people of the earth droop.

Jeremiah 10:22

Behold, the noise of the rumor has come, and a great commotion out of the north country, to make the cities of Judah a desolation, a den of jackals.

Jeremiah 14:2

Judah mourns, and its gates droop. They are black to the ground, and the cry of Jerusalem has gone up.

Lamentations 2:6-7

And He violated His booth like a garden, and destroyed His meeting places. Jehovah caused the meeting places and sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion, and He despised the king and the priest in the fury of His anger.

Isaiah 32:9-14

Rise up, women who are at ease; hear my voice, careless daughters; listen to my speech.

Jeremiah 33:10-12

So says Jehovah: Again there shall be heard in this place, which you say is a waste 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;

Lamentations 1:11-12

All her people sigh; they seek bread. They have given their desirable things for food to relieve the soul. See, O Jehovah, and look on me, for I have become vile.

Lamentations 1:18-20

Jehovah is righteous, for I have rebelled against His command. I beseech you, all peoples, hear and behold my sorrow. My virgins and my young men went into exile.

Lamentations 2:9-11

Her gates have sunk in the ground; He has destroyed and broken her bars. Her kings and her rulers are among the nations. The Law is no more; also her prophets also find no vision from Jehovah.

Lamentations 2:19-21

Arise, cry out in the night. At the beginning of the watches, pour out your heart like water before the face of Jehovah. Lift up your hands toward Him for the life of your children who are faint for hunger in the head of every street.

Lamentations 5:13

They took the young men to grind, and the youths stumbled at the wood.

Micah 3:12

Therefore, on account of you, Zion shall be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house into high places of the forest.