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Lamentations 1

Lam. 1:4 KJV (With Strong’s)

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The ways
derek (Hebrew #1870)
a road (as trodden); figuratively, a course of life or mode of action, often adverb
KJV usage: along, away, because of, + by, conversation, custom, (east-)ward, journey, manner, passenger, through, toward, (high-) (path-)way(-side), whither(-soever).
Pronounce: deh'-rek
Origin: from 1869
of Zion
Tsiyown (Hebrew #6726)
Tsijon (as a permanent capital), a mountain of Jerusalem
KJV usage: Zion.
Pronounce: tsee-yone'
Origin: the same (regularly) as 6725
do mourn
'abel (Hebrew #57)
lamenting
KJV usage: mourn(-er, -ing).
Pronounce: aw-bale'
Origin: from 56
, because none come
bow' (Hebrew #935)
to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)
KJV usage: abide, apply, attain, X be, befall, + besiege, bring (forth, in, into, to pass), call, carry, X certainly, (cause, let, thing for) to come (against, in, out, upon, to pass), depart, X doubtless again, + eat, + employ, (cause to) enter (in, into, -tering, -trance, -try), be fallen, fetch, + follow, get, give, go (down, in, to war), grant, + have, X indeed, (in-)vade, lead, lift (up), mention, pull in, put, resort, run (down), send, set, X (well) stricken (in age), X surely, take (in), way.
Pronounce: bo
Origin: a primitive root
to the solemn feasts
mow`ed (Hebrew #4150)
or (feminine) moweadah (2 Chronicles 8:13) {mo-aw-daw'}; from 3259; properly, an appointment, i.e. a fixed time or season; specifically, a festival; conventionally a year; by implication, an assembly (as convened for a definite purpose); technically the congregation; by extension, the place of meeting; also a signal (as appointed beforehand)
KJV usage: appointed (sign, time), (place of, solemn) assembly, congregation, (set, solemn) feast, (appointed, due) season, solemn(-ity), synogogue, (set) time (appointed).
Pronounce: mo-ade'
Origin: or moled {mo-ade'}
: all her gates
sha`ar (Hebrew #8179)
an opening, i.e. door or gate
KJV usage: city, door, gate, port (X -er).
Pronounce: shah'-ar
Origin: from 8176 in its original sense
are desolate
shamem (Hebrew #8074)
to stun (or intransitively, grow numb), i.e. devastate or (figuratively) stupefy (both usually in a passive sense)
KJV usage: make amazed, be astonied, (be an) astonish(-ment), (be, bring into, unto, lay, lie, make) desolate(-ion, places), be destitute, destroy (self), (lay, lie, make) waste, wonder.
Pronounce: shaw-mame'
Origin: a primitive root
: her priests
kohen (Hebrew #3548)
literally, one officiating, a priest; also (by courtesy) an acting priest (although a layman)
KJV usage: chief ruler, X own, priest, prince, principal officer.
Pronounce: ko-hane'
Origin: active participle of 3547
sigh
'anach (Hebrew #584)
to sigh
KJV usage: groan, mourn, sigh.
Pronounce: aw-nakh'
Origin: a primitive root
, her virgins
bthuwlah (Hebrew #1330)
a virgin (from her privacy); sometimes (by continuation) a bride; also (figuratively) a city or state
KJV usage: maid, virgin.
Pronounce: beth-oo-law'
Origin: feminine passive participle of an unused root meaning to separate
are afflicted
yagah (Hebrew #3013)
to grieve
KJV usage: afflict, cause grief, grieve, sorrowful, vex.
Pronounce: yaw-gaw'
Origin: a primitive root
, and she is in bitterness
marar (Hebrew #4843)
properly, to trickle (see 4752); but used only as a denominative from 4751; to be (causatively, make) bitter (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: (be, be in, deal, have, make) bitter(-ly, - ness), be moved with choler, (be, have sorely, it) grieved(-eth), provoke, vex.
Pronounce: maw-rar'
Origin: a primitive root
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Feasts,
Gate,
Priest; Priesthood,
Virgin; Virginity,
Zion; Sion; Mount Zion

Cross References

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Lam. 2:6‑7• 6And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden:{HR}He hath destroyed his places of the assembly.{HR}Jehovah hath caused the solemn feasts and Sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion,{HR}And hath despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest.
 7The Lord hath cast off his altar, he hath abhorred his sanctuary,{HR}He hath given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces;{HR}They have made a noise in the house of Jehovah, as in the day of a solemn feast. (Lam. 2:6‑7)
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Lam. 5:13• 13Young men they took to the mill, and boys fell under the wood. (Lam. 5:13)
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Isa. 24:4‑6• 4The earth mourneth, it fadeth away: the world languisheth, it fadeth away; the haughty people of the earth do languish,
 5The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof, for they have transgressed the laws, changed the statute, broken the everlasting covenant.
 6Therefore doth the curse devour the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate; therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left. (Isa. 24:4‑6)
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Jer. 14:2• 2Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish; they are black unto the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up. (Jer. 14:2)
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Mic. 3:12• 12Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest. (Mic. 3:12)
all her gates.
Lam. 2:9• 9Her gates are sunk into the ground; he hath destroyed and broken her bars:{HR}Her king and her princes are among the Gentiles:{HR}The law is no more; her prophets also find no vision from Jehovah. (Lam. 2:9)
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Jer. 9:11• 11{i}And I will make Jerusalem heaps, a dwelling-place of jackals; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.{/i} (Jer. 9:11)
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Jer. 10:22• 22{i}The voice of a rumour! Behold, it cometh, and a great commotion out of the north country, to make the cities of Judah a desolation, a dwelling-place of jackals.{/i} (Jer. 10:22)
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Jer. 33:10‑12• 10Thus saith Jehovah; Again there shall be heard in this place, which ye say shall be desolate without man and without beast, even in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem that are desolate, without man, and without inhabitant, and without beast,
 11the voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the voice of them that shall say, Praise Jehovah of hosts: for Jehovah is good: for his mercy endureth forever: and of them that shall bring the sacrifice of praise into the house of Jehovah. For I will cause to return the captivity of the land, as at the first, saith Jehovah.
 12Thus saith Jehovah of hosts; Again in this place, which is desolate without man and without beast, and in all the cities thereof, shall be an habitation of shepherds causing their flocks to lie down. (Jer. 33:10‑12)
her priests.
Lam. 1:11‑12,18‑20• 11All her people sigh, they seek bread;{HR}They have given their pleasant things for meat to relieve the soul:{HR}See, O Jehovah, and consider: for I am become vile.
 12Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by?{HR}Behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow,{HR}Which is done unto me, wherewith Jehovah hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.
 18Jehovah is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment:{HR}Hear, I pray you, all people, and behold my sorrow:{HR}My virgins and my young men are gone into captivity.
 19I called for my lovers, but they deceived me:{HR}My priests and mine elders gave up the ghost in the city,{HR}While they sought their meat to relieve their souls.
 20Behold, O Jehovah; for I am in distress: my bowels are troubled;{HR}Mine heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled:{HR}Abroad the sword bereaveth, at home there is as death. (Lam. 1:11‑12,18‑20)
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Lam. 2:10‑11,19‑21• 10The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, and keep silence:{HR}They have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth{HR}The virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.
 11Mine eyes do fill with tears, my bowels are troubled,{HR}My liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people;{HR}Because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.
 19Arise, cry out in the night:{HR}In the beginning of the watches pour out thine heart like water before the face of the Lord:{HR}Lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children that faint for hunger in the top of every street.
 20Behold, O Jehovah, and consider to whom thou hast done this.{HR}Shall the women eat their fruit, and children of a span long?{HR}Shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?
 21The young and the old lie on the ground in the streets:{HR}My virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword;{HR}Thou hast slain them in the day of thine anger; thou hast killed, and not pitied. (Lam. 2:10‑11,19‑21)
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Isa. 32:9‑14• 9Rise up, ye women that are at ease, hear my voice; ye careless daughters, give ear unto my speech.
 10For days beyond a year shall ye be troubled, ye careless women; for the vintage shall fail, the ingathering shall not come.
 11Tremble, ye women that are at ease; be troubled, ye careless ones; strip you, and make you bare, and gird [sackcloth] on [your] loins.
 12They shall smite on the breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.
 13Upon the land of my people shall come up thistles [and] briars: yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city.
 14For the palace shall be deserted; the multitude of the city shall be forsaken; the hill and watch-tower shall be dens forever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks; (Isa. 32:9‑14)
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Joel 1:8‑13• 8Lament as a virgin girded with sackcloth on account of the husband of her youth.
 9The meat-offering and the drink-offering are cut off from the house of Jehovah; the priests howl, the ministers of Jehovah.
 10The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.
 11{i}Be ashamed, ye husbandmen; howl, ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley: because the harvest of the field hath perished.{/i}
 12{i}The vine is dried up, and the fig-tree languisheth; the pomegranate-tree, the palm also and the apple-tree; all the trees of the field are withered, yea, joy is withered away from the children of men.{/i}
 13{i}Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests; howl, ministers of the altar; come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the oblation and the drink-offering are withholden from the house of your God.{/i} (Joel 1:8‑13)

J. N. Darby Translation

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The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn assembly: all her gates are desolate; her priests sigh, her virgins are in grief; and as for her, she is in bitterness.

W. Kelly Translation

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The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn assembly:{HR}All her gates are desolate; her priests sigh, her virgins are in grief;{HR}And as for her, she is in bitterness.

WK Verse Note

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(Note: Words in italics have been inserted from the J. N. Darby translation where the W. Kelly translation doesn’t exist.)