Lamentations 1:4

The Desolate City

³ Judah has been taken away as a prisoner because of trouble and hard work. She dwells among the nations. There is no rest for her. Her attackers have overtaken her in the midst of her distress. ⁴ The roads of Zion are in mourning
Because no one comes to the appointed feasts.
All her gates are desolate;
Her priests are groaning,
Her virgins are afflicted,
And she herself is bitter.
⁵ Her enemies are at ease and her foes have become her masters. Jehovah (YHWH) sends her sorrow because of the great number of her sins. Young children have gone away as prisoners before the attacker.

Appointed Feasts

Appointed Time

City Gate

Solemn Assembly

No

Zion

Jeremiah 9:11

I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins. It will be a gathering place of jackals. I will make the cities of Judah desolation, without inhabitant.

Joel 1:8-13

Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.

Isaiah 24:4-6

The earth mourns and fades away, the world fades and withers, the exalted people of the earth mourn.

Jeremiah 10:22

The report has arrived. Listen! An incredible uproar is coming from the land of the north. Its army will destroy Judah's cities and make them homes for jackals.

Jeremiah 14:2

Judah mourns and its gates collapse. The people of Judah are filled with bereavement as they sit on the ground. Their cry goes up from Jerusalem.

Lamentations 2:6-7

He violently takes away his tent, as from a garden. And he lays waste his meeting-place. Jehovah has taken away the memory of feast and Sabbath in Zion. In the passion of his wrath he is against king and priest.

Isaiah 32:9-14

Rise up, you women who are at ease. Hear my voice and pay attention to my word, you complacent daughters.

Jeremiah 33:10-12

This is what Jehovah says: 'You have said that this place is ruined and that no people or animals live in it. It is true! The cities of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem are deserted. No people or animals live there. But once again you will hear,

Lamentations 1:11-12

Her people are sighing and looking for bread. They have given their desired things for something to eat to give them life. See, O Jehovah, and take note. She has become a thing of shame.

Lamentations 1:18-20

Jehovah is upright. I have rebelled against him. Listen all you people and see my pain. My virgins and my young men are taken away as prisoners.

Lamentations 2:9-11

Her gates have gone down into the earth. He destroyed her locks and bars. Her king and her princes are among the nations where there is no law. Her prophets have had no vision from Jehovah.

Lamentations 2:19-21

Rise up! Cry out in the night at the beginning of the night watches. Let your heart be flowing out like water before the face of Jehovah. Lift up your hands to him for the life of your young children who are falling down starving in every street.

Lamentations 5:13

The young men crushed the grain, and the boys fell under the wood.

Micah 3:12

It is your fault that Zion will be plowed like a field. Jerusalem will become heaps of ruin, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.