Parallel Verses
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.
Bible in Basic English
Because of the mountain of Zion which is a waste; jackals go 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
For this our heart has become sick, for these things our eyes have grown dim,
18
Names
Cross References
Micah 3:12
Therefore because of you Zion shall be plowed as a field; Jerusalem shall become a heap of ruins, and the mountain of the house a wooded height.
1 Kings 9:7-8
then I will cut off Israel from the land that I have given them, and the house that I have consecrated for my name I will cast out of my sight, and Israel will become a proverb and a byword among all peoples.
Psalm 74:2-3
Remember your congregation, which you have purchased of old, which you have redeemed to be the tribe of your heritage! Remember Mount Zion, where you have dwelt.
Isaiah 32:13-14
for the soil of my people growing up in thorns and briers, yes, for all the joyous houses in the exultant city.
Jeremiah 9:11
I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins, a lair of jackals, and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant."
Jeremiah 17:3
on the mountains in the open country. Your wealth and all your treasures I will give for spoil as the price of your high places for sin throughout all your territory.
Jeremiah 26:9
Why have you prophesied in the name of the LORD, saying, 'This house shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate, without inhabitant'?" And all the people gathered around Jeremiah in the house of the LORD.
Jeremiah 52:13
And he burned the house of the LORD, and the king's house and all the houses of Jerusalem; every great house he burned down.
Lamentations 2:8-9
The LORD determined to lay in ruins the wall of the daughter of Zion; he stretched out the measuring line; he did not restrain his hand from destroying; he caused rampart and wall to lament; they languished together.