Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
Fled from cherished Zion are all that were her splendor. Her princes have become like deer that cannot find their feeding grounds. They flee with strength exhausted from their pursuers.
New American Standard Bible
Has departed from the daughter of Zion;
Her princes have become like deer
That have found no pasture;
And they have
Before the pursuer.
King James Version
And from the daughter of Zion all her beauty is departed: her princes are become like harts that find no pasture, and they are gone without strength before the pursuer.
Holman Bible
ו Vav
from Daughter Zion.
Her leaders are like stags
that find no pasture;
they walk away exhausted
before the hunter.
American Standard Version
And from the daughter of Zion all her majesty is departed: Her princes are become like harts that find no pasture, And they are gone without strength before the pursuer.
Amplified
All her beauty and majesty
Have departed from the Daughter of Zion (Jerusalem).
Her princes have become like deer
That have found no pasture;
They have fled without strength
Before the pursuer.
Bible in Basic English
And all her glory has gone from the daughter of Zion: her rulers have become like harts with no place for food, and they have gone in flight without strength before the attacker.
Darby Translation
And from the daughter of Zion all her splendour is departed: her princes are become like harts that find no pasture; and they are gone without strength before the pursuer.
Julia Smith Translation
From the daughter of Zion all her decoration went forth: her chiefs were as rams; they found not feed, and they went without strength before him pursuing.
King James 2000
And from the daughter of Zion all her beauty has departed: her princes have become like harts that find no pasture, and they have gone without strength before the pursuer.
Lexham Expanded Bible
All her majesty has gone away from the daughter of Zion; her princes have become like young stags that have not found pasture; they have gone away without strength, before the pursuer.
Modern King James verseion
And from the daughter of Zion all her beauty has departed. Her rulers have become like bucks: they find no pasture, and they have gone without strength before the pursuer.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
{Vav} All the beauty of the daughter of Zion is away, her princes are become like harts that find no pasture. They are driven away before their enemy, so that they have no more power.
NET Bible
(Vav) All of Daughter Zion's splendor has departed. Her leaders became like deer; they found no pasture, so they were too exhausted to escape from the hunter.
New Heart English Bible
All majesty has departed from the daughter of Zion: her leaders have become like deer that find no pasture, they fled exhausted before the pursuer.
The Emphasized Bible
Thus hath gone forth from the daughter of Zion, all that adorned her, - Her princes have become like harts that have found no pasture, and have gone strengthless before the pursuer.
Webster
And from the daughter of Zion all her beauty hath departed: her princes are become like harts that find no pasture, and they are gone without strength before the pursuer.
World English Bible
From the daughter of Zion all her majesty is departed: her princes are become like harts that find no pasture, they are gone without strength before the pursuer.
Youngs Literal Translation
And go out from the daughter of Zion doth all her honour, Her princes have been as harts -- They have not found pasture, And they go powerless before a pursuer.
Themes
The Heart » Illustrative » (without pasture,) of the persecuted
Jerusalem » Captured and pillaged by » Nebuchadnezzar, king of babylon
Interlinear
Bath
Hadar
Sar
Matsa'
Yalak
References
Word Count of 19 Translations in Lamentations 1:6
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Desolate City
5 Her adversaries dominate her, her enemies prosper. For the LORD has made her suffer because of her many transgressions. Her children have gone away, taken into captivity in the presence of the enemy. 6 Fled from cherished Zion are all that were her splendor. Her princes have become like deer that cannot find their feeding grounds. They flee with strength exhausted from their pursuers. 7 Jerusalem remembers her time of affliction and misery; all her valued belongings of days gone by, when her people fell into enemy hands, with no one to help her, and her enemies stared at her, mocking her downfall.
Phrases
Cross References
Leviticus 26:36-37
"As for the remnants among you, I'll bring despair in their hearts in the land of their enemies so that even the sound of a blown leaf will chase them and they flee as though pursued by the sword and fall when no one is pursuing.
Deuteronomy 28:25
"The LORD will cause you to be defeated by your enemies. You'll go out against them in one direction, but you'll flee from them in seven directions. Consequently, you'll be in a state of great terror throughout all the kingdoms of the earth.
Deuteronomy 32:30
How can one person chase a thousand of them and two put a myriad to flight, unless their Rock delivers them and the LORD gives them up?
Joshua 7:12-13
The Israelis have been unable to stand before their enemies. They're turning their backs and running from their enemies because they themselves have been turned over to destruction. I will not be with you anymore unless you destroy these things that have been turned over to destruction.
2 Samuel 4:11-12
How much worse will it be, then, when evil men kill an innocent man on his own bed in his own house! Shouldn't I avenge his blood which you are responsible for shedding by removing you from the earth?"
2 Kings 19:21
"This is what the LORD has spoken against him: "She despises and mocks you, this virgin daughter of Zion! Behind your back she shakes her head, this daughter of Jerusalem!
Psalm 44:9-11
However, you cast us off and made us ashamed! You did not even march with our armies!
Psalm 48:2-3
Beautifully situated, the joy of all the earth, Mount Zion towards the north, the city of the great King.
Psalm 50:2
From Zion, the perfection of beauty, God has shined forth.
Psalm 96:9
Worship the LORD in holy splendor; tremble before him, all the earth.
Psalm 132:12-13
If your sons keep my covenant and my statutes that I will teach them, then their sons will also sit on your throne forever."
Isaiah 1:21
"How the faithful city has become a whore, she who used to be filled with justice! Righteousness used to reside within her, but now only murderers live there.
Isaiah 4:5
Then the LORD will create over the entire site of Mount Zion including over those who assemble there a cloud by day
Isaiah 12:6
Shout aloud, and sing for joy, you who live in Zion, because great in your midst is the Holy One of Israel."
Jeremiah 13:18
Say to the king and the queen mother, "Come take a lowly seat, because your beautiful crowns have fallen off your heads."
Jeremiah 14:5-6
Even the doe in the field gives birth and then abandons her young because there is no grass.
Jeremiah 29:4
"This is what the LORD of the Heavenly Armies, the God of Israel, says to all the exiles who were taken from Jerusalem into exile to Babylon,
Jeremiah 47:3
At the sound of the galloping hooves of his horses, at the rumbling of his chariots, the clatter of his wheels, fathers won't turn back for their children because their hands are weak,
Jeremiah 48:41
The towns will be captured and the strongholds seized. On that day the hearts of the warriors of Moab will be like the heart of a woman in labor.
Jeremiah 51:30-32
The warriors of Babylon have stopped fighting. They stay in their strongholds; their strength is dried up; they have become like women. Her buildings are set on fire; the bars of her gates are broken.
Jeremiah 52:7-8
The wall of the city was broken through, and all the soldiers fled, leaving the city at night through the gate between the two walls next to the king's garden, even though the Chaldeans were all around the city. They went in the direction of the Arabah.
Jeremiah 52:11
He blinded Zedekiah and bound him in bronze shackles. Then the king of Babylon took him to Babylon and put him in prison until he died.
Jeremiah 52:13
He burned the LORD's Temple, the king's house, and all the houses in Jerusalem. He also burned every public building with fire.
Lamentations 2:1-7
How the Lord in his wrath shamed cherished Zion! He cast down from heaven to earth the glory of Israel, He did not remember his footstool in the time of his anger.
Ezekiel 7:20-22
"As for his beautiful ornament, he set it up in majesty, but they made detestable images and loathsome idols. Therefore, I'll give them something loathsome
Ezekiel 11:22-23
Then the cherubim arose, with their wheels alongside, and the glory of Israel's God remained above and over them.
Ezekiel 24:21
"Tell the house of Israel that this is what the Lord GOD says: "Look! I'm about to profane my sanctuary, the source of your proud strength, the desire of your eyes, and the object of your affection. Your sons and daughters, whom you've left behind, will die by the sword.
Ezekiel 24:25
"And now, Son of Man, on the day that I take their strength, joy, and glory from them, those whom they love to watch, the focus of their affection their sons and daughters
Zephaniah 3:14-17
"Sing aloud, daughter of Zion! Shout out, Israel! Rejoice with all of your heart, daughter of Jerusalem!