Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
Because of the mountain of Zion which is a waste; jackals go over it.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.
Holman Bible
and has jackals prowling in it.
International Standard Version
Because Mount Zion is desolate; foxes roam around it.
A Conservative Version
for the mountain of Zion, which is desolate. The foxes walk upon it.
American Standard Version
For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate: The foxes walk upon it.
Amplified
As for Mount Zion, which lies desolate,
Foxes and the jackals prowl over it.
Darby Translation
Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate: foxes walk over it.
Julia Smith Translation
For mount Zion was laid waste, the foxes went upon it.
King James 2000
Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Because of Mount Zion, which lies desolate, {foxes tread on it}.
Modern King James verseion
On the mountain of Zion is laid waste, the foxes walk on it.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
because of the hill of Zion that is destroyed: Insomuch that the foxes run upon it.
NET Bible
For wild animals are prowling over Mount Zion, which lies desolate.
New Heart English Bible
For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate; the foxes walk on it.
The Emphasized Bible
Because of Mount Zion, which is desolate, jackals, have gone prowling therein.
Webster
Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.
World English Bible
For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate: The foxes walk on it.
Youngs Literal Translation
For the mount of Zion -- that is desolate, Foxes have gone up on it.
Interlinear
Shamem
Word Count of 20 Translations in Lamentations 5:18
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Request For Mercy
17 Because of this our hearts are feeble; for these things our eyes are dark; 18 Because of the mountain of Zion which is a waste; jackals go over it. 19 You, O Lord, are seated as King for ever; the seat of your power is eternal.
Names
Cross References
Micah 3:12
For this reason, Zion will be ploughed like a field because of you, and Jerusalem will become a mass of broken walls, and the mountain of the house like a high place in the woods.
1 Kings 9:7-8
Then I will have Israel cut off from the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have made holy for myself, I will put away from before my eyes; and Israel will be a public example, and a word of shame among all peoples.
Psalm 74:2-3
Keep in mind your band of worshippers, for whom you gave payment in the days which are past, whom you took for yourself as the people of your heritage; even this mountain of Zion, which has been your resting-place.
Isaiah 32:13-14
And for the land of my people, where thorns will come up; even for all the houses of joy in the glad town.
Jeremiah 9:11
And I will make Jerusalem a mass of broken stones, the living-place of jackals; and I will make the towns of Judah a waste, with no man living there.
Jeremiah 17:3
I will give your wealth and all your stores to be taken away in war without a price, because of your sins in every part of your land.
Jeremiah 26:9
Why have you said in the name of the Lord, This house will be like Shiloh, and this land a waste with no one living in it? And all the people had come together to Jeremiah in the house of the Lord.
Jeremiah 52:13
And he had the house of the Lord and the king's house and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, burned with fire:
Lamentations 2:8-9
It is the Lord's purpose to make waste the wall of the daughter of Zion; his line has been stretched out, he has not kept back his hand from destruction: he has sent sorrow on tower and wall, they have become feeble together.