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Lamentations 5:18 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: King James Version

" Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it. "

Lamentations 5:18

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16 The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!

17 For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.

18 Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.

19 Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.

20 Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?

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Daniel 9:17

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"And I will make Jerusalem heaps, and a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant."

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Luke 21:6

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"As for these things which ye behold, the days will come, in the which there shall not be left one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down."

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Jeremiah 26:9

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"Why hast thou prophesied in the name of the LORD, saying, This house shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate without an inhabitant? And all the people were gathered against Jeremiah in the house of the LORD."

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From This Chapter

Lamentations 5:1

"Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach."

Lamentations 5:2

"Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens."

Lamentations 5:3

"We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows."

Lamentations 5:4

"We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us."

Lamentations 5:5

"Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest."

Lamentations 5:6

"We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread."

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