Lamentations 1:4
The roads that lead to Zion are in mourning, because no one travels to the festivals. All her gates are desolate; her priests are moaning. Her young women are grieving, and she is bitter.
Jeremiah 9:11
"I'll make Jerusalem a heap of ruins, a refuge for jackals. I'll make the towns of Judah desolate, without inhabitants."
Joel 1:8-13
"Grieve like a virgin, who, dressed in her mourner's clothes, cries out in memory of the man she was going to marry.
Isaiah 24:4-6
"The earth dries up and withers; the world languishes and fades away; heaven fades away, along with the earth.
Jeremiah 10:22
The sound of a report, it's coming now! There is a great commotion from a land in the north to make the towns of Judah desolate, a refuge for jackals."
Jeremiah 14:2
"Judah mourns, and her gates languish. The people mourn for the land, and the cry of Jerusalem goes up.
Lamentations 2:6-7
He plowed under his Temple like a garden, spoiling his tent. The LORD abolished in Zion both festivals and Sabbaths. In his fierce wrath he despised both king and priest.
Isaiah 32:9-14
"As for you ladies of leisure Get up and listen to my voice! You daughters who feel so complacent hear what I have to say!
Jeremiah 33:10-12
"This is what the LORD says: "You are saying about this place, "It is a ruin without people and without animals." Yet in the cities of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem which are desolate places without inhabitants and without animals, there will again be heard
Lamentations 1:11-12
All her people groaned as they searched for food. They traded their valuables in order to eat, to keep themselves alive. Look, LORD, and see how I have become dishonored.
Lamentations 1:18-20
The LORD is in the right, but I rebelled against his commands. Listen, please, all you people, and look at my pain my young men and women have gone into captivity.
Lamentations 2:9-11
Jerusalem's gates collapsed to the ground; he destroyed and broke the bars of her gates. Both king and prince have gone into captivity. There is no instruction, and the prophets receive no vision from the LORD.
Lamentations 2:19-21
Get up and cry aloud in the night, at the beginning of every hour. Pour out your heart like water in the presence of the Lord! Lift up your hands toward him for the lives of your children, who are fainting away at every street corner.
Lamentations 5:13
Our young men must grind grain with a millstone; our youths stumble under the weight of wood.
Micah 3:12
"Therefore, because of you, Zion will be plowed up like a field, and Jerusalem will become heaps of rubble, and the Temple Mount like a forest high place."