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Lamentations 5

Lam. 5:18 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Because of the mountain
har (Hebrew #2022)
a mountain or range of hills (sometimes used figuratively)
KJV usage: hill (country), mount(-ain), X promotion.
Pronounce: har
Origin: a shortened form of 2042
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
, which is 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
, the foxes
shuw`al (Hebrew #7776)
from the same as 8168; a jackal (as a burrower)
KJV usage: fox.
Pronounce: shoo-awl'
Origin: or shunal {shoo-awl'}
walk
halak (Hebrew #1980)
a primitive root; to walk (in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively)
KJV usage: (all) along, apace, behave (self), come, (on) continually, be conversant, depart, + be eased, enter, exercise (self), + follow, forth, forward, get, go (about, abroad, along, away, forward, on, out, up and down), + greater, grow, be wont to haunt, lead, march, X more and more, move (self), needs, on, pass (away), be at the point, quite, run (along), + send, speedily, spread, still, surely, + tale-bearer, + travel(-ler), walk (abroad, on, to and fro, up and down, to places), wander, wax, (way-)faring man, X be weak, whirl.
Pronounce: haw-lak'
Origin: akin to 3212
upon it.

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Fox,
Mountain Mount,
Zion; Sion; Mount Zion

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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Lam. 2:8‑9• 8Jehovah hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion: he hath stretched out the line, he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying; and he hath made the rampart and the wall to lament: they languish together.
 9Her gates are sunk into the ground; he hath destroyed and broken her bars. Her king and her princes are among the nations: the law is no more; her prophets also find no vision from Jehovah. (Lam. 2:8‑9)
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1 Kings 9:7‑8• 7then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and the house, which I have hallowed to my name, will I cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a by word among all peoples;
 8and this house, which is high, every one that passes by it shall be astonished at, and shall hiss, and they shall say, Why has Jehovah done thus to this land and to this house? (1 Kings 9:7‑8)
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Psa. 74:2‑3• 2Remember thine assembly, which thou hast purchased of old, which thou hast redeemed to be the portion of thine inheritance, this mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt.
 3Lift up thy steps unto the perpetual desolations: everything in the sanctuary hath the enemy destroyed. (Psa. 74:2‑3)
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Jer. 17:3• 3My mountain in the field, thy substance, all thy treasures will I give for a spoil,--thy high places, because of sin throughout thy borders. (Jer. 17:3)
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Jer. 26:9• 9Why hast thou prophesied in the name of Jehovah, saying, This house shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate, without inhabitant? And all the people were gathered against Jeremiah in the house of Jehovah. (Jer. 26:9)
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Jer. 52:13• 13and he burned the house of Jehovah, and the king's house, and all the houses of Jerusalem; and every great man's house he burned with fire. (Jer. 52:13)
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Mic. 3:12• 12Therefore shall Zion for your sake be ploughed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest. (Mic. 3:12)
the foxes.
Isa. 32:13‑14• 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; hill and watchtower shall be caves for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks; (Isa. 32:13‑14)
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Jer. 9:11• 11And I will make Jerusalem heaps, a dwelling-place of jackals; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant. (Jer. 9:11)
• The outward indefectibility of His dwelling on earth is but the fond dream of the men whose unrighteousness, holding the truth in unrighteousness, will surely bring on its judgment from the enemy under the righteous dealing of God. (“Lamentations of Jeremiah: Chapter 5” by W. Kelly)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate: foxes walk over it.