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Lamentations 1:4 KJV
Lamentations · chapter 1 · verse 4
The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitterness.Lamentations 1:4 · King James Version
Lamentations 1:4 in context
2She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks: among all her lovers she hath none to comfort her: all her friends have dealt treacherously with her, they are become her enemies.
3Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude: she dwelleth among the heathen, she findeth no rest: all her persecutors overtook her between the straits.
4The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitterness.
5Her adversaries are the chief, her enemies prosper; for the LORD hath afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: her children are gone into captivity before the enemy.
6And from the daughter of Zion all her beauty is departed: her princes are become like harts that find no pasture, and they are gone without strength before the pursuer.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- desolateshâmêmto stunH8074 →
- priestskôhênliterally one officiating, a priestH3548 →
- virginsbᵉthûwlâha virginH1330 →
- feastsmôwʻêdproperly, an appointmentH4150 →
- mournʼâbêllamentingH57 →
- gatesshaʻaran openingH8179 →
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Those that have any disposition to weep with those that weep, one would think, should scarcely be able to refrain from tears at the reading of these verses, so very pathetic are the lamentations here. I. The miseries of Jerusalem are here complained of as very pressing and by many circumstances very much aggravated.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-11