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Lamentations 5:18

Because of the mountain of Zion which is a waste; jackals go over it.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Patriotism;   Thompson Chain Reference - Desolation;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Fox, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Fox;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Mill;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Jackal;   Lamentations, Book of;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Fox;   Jerusalem;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Captivity;   Fox;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
because of Mount Zion, which lies desolateand has jackals prowling in it.
Hebrew Names Version
For the mountain of Tziyon, which is desolate: The foxes walk on it.
King James Version
Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.
English Standard Version
for Mount Zion which lies desolate; jackals prowl over it.
New American Standard Bible
Because of Mount Zion which lies desolate, Jackals prowl in it.
New Century Version
Mount Zion is empty, and wild dogs wander around it.
Amplified Bible
As for Mount Zion, which lies desolate, Foxes and the jackals prowl over it.
World English Bible
For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate: The foxes walk on it.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Because of the mountaine of Zion which is desolate: the foxes runne vpon it.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Because of Mount Zion which lies desolate, Foxes prowl in it.
Legacy Standard Bible
Because of Mount Zion which lies desolate,Foxes walk about in it.
Berean Standard Bible
because of Mount Zion, which lies desolate, haunted by the jackals.
Contemporary English Version
our city is in ruins, overrun by wild dogs.
Complete Jewish Bible
it's because of Mount Tziyon, so wasted that jackals have overrun it.
Darby Translation
Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate: foxes walk over it.
Easy-to-Read Version
Mount Zion is a wasteland. Foxes run around on Mount Zion.
George Lamsa Translation
Because mount Zion is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.
Good News Translation
because Mount Zion lies lonely and deserted, and wild jackals prowl through its ruins.
Lexham English Bible
Because of Mount Zion, which lies desolate, foxes tread on it.
Literal Translation
Zion is laid waste on the mountain; foxes walk about on it.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
because of ye hill of Sion that is destroyed, In so moch, that the foxes runne vpon it.
American Standard Version
For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate: The foxes walk upon it.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.
King James Version (1611)
Because of the mountaine of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walke vpon it.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Because of the hill of Sion that is destroyed: insomuch that the foxes runne vpon it.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Over the mountain of Sion, because it is made desolate, foxes have walked therein.
English Revised Version
For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate; the foxes walk upon it.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For the hil of Sion, for it perischide; foxis yeden in it.
Update Bible Version
For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate: The foxes walk on it.
Webster's Bible Translation
Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.
New English Translation
For wild animals are prowling over Mount Zion, which lies desolate.
New King James Version
Because of Mount Zion which is desolate, With foxes walking about on it.
New Living Translation
For Jerusalem is empty and desolate, a place haunted by jackals.
New Life Bible
Mount Zion lies in waste, so foxes run all over it.
New Revised Standard
because of Mount Zion, which lies desolate; jackals prowl over it.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Because of Mount Zion, which is desolate, jackals, have gone prowling therein.
Douay-Rheims Bible
For mount Sion, because it is destroyed, foxes have walked upon it.
Revised Standard Version
for Mount Zion which lies desolate; jackals prowl over it.
Young's Literal Translation
For the mount of Zion -- that is desolate, Foxes have gone up on it.

Contextual Overview

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. 20 Why have we gone from your memory for ever? why have you been turned away from us for so long? 21 Make us come back to you, O Lord, and let us be turned; make our days new again as in the past. 22 But you have quite given us up; you are full of wrath against us.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

of the: Lamentations 2:8, Lamentations 2:9, 1 Kings 9:7, 1 Kings 9:8, Psalms 74:2, Psalms 74:3, Jeremiah 17:3, Jeremiah 26:9, Jeremiah 52:13, Micah 3:12

the foxes: Isaiah 32:13, Isaiah 32:14, Jeremiah 9:11

Reciprocal: Leviticus 26:32 - And I Judges 15:4 - caught three Isaiah 24:12 - General Isaiah 27:10 - the defenced Isaiah 64:10 - General Jeremiah 44:2 - a desolation Ezekiel 5:14 - I will Ezekiel 12:20 - General Daniel 9:17 - thy sanctuary Luke 21:6 - there

Cross-References

Genesis 4:17
And Cain had connection with his wife and she became with child and gave birth to Enoch: and he made a town, and gave the town the name of Enoch after his son.
Genesis 5:14
And all the years of Kenan's life were nine hundred and ten; and he came to his end.
Genesis 5:15
And Mahalalel was sixty-five years old when he became the father of Jared:
1 Chronicles 1:3
Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech;
Luke 3:37
The son of Methuselah, the son of Enoch, the son of Jared, the son of Mahalaleel, the son of Cainan,

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate,.... Meaning either the city of Jerusalem in general, or the temple in particular, which both lay in ruins: but the latter gave the truly godly the greatest concern; that the seat of divine Majesty should be in such a condition; that the public exercises of religion should cease, and there be no more opportunities of waiting upon God, and worshipping him as heretofore; their civil interest, and the loss of that did not so much affect them as the interest of religion, and what that suffered:

the foxes walk upon it: as they do in desolate places, shunning the company of men; but here they walked in common, and as freely as in the woods and deserts: this was fulfilled in the destruction of the second temple, as well as the first. R. Akiba c and his companions were walking together; they saw a fox come out of the holy of holies; they wept, but he laughed or rejoiced; they wept, that in the place where the stranger that drew near should die, now foxes walked upon it; he laughed or rejoiced, because, as this prophecy was fulfilled, so would others that predicted good things.

c T. Bab. Maccot, fol. 24. 1. 2.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The foxes - Or, jackals. As these animals live among ruins, and shun the presence of man, it shows that Zion is laid waste and deserted.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 18. The foxes walk upon it.Foxes are very numerous in Palestine, see on Judges 15:4. It was usual among the Hebrews to consider all desolated land to be the resort of wild beasts; which is, in fact, the case every where when the inhabitants are removed from a country.


 
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