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Lamentations 1:4-6
EasyEnglish Bible
Lamentations 1:4-6
EasyEnglish Bible
4 Zion's streets are sad places now.[a]
Nobody comes to worship God there any longer.
There is nothing to hear at the city gates.[b]
The priests are sad.
Strangers are cruel to the young women.
The people in Zion are very sad.
5 The people's enemies rule them now.
Those who hate them have plenty.
The Lord has caused trouble for the people
because they did so many wrong things.[c]
The enemies took the children away to work as slaves.
6 Zion is not beautiful any longer.
Her leaders are like animals without food.
They are too weak to run from their enemies.
Footnotes
- 1:4 Zion is another name for Jerusalem. Jerusalem was the capital city of the country called Judah.
- 1:4 The leaders always met at the city gate to talk together. See Lamentations 5:14.
- 1:5 When we write Lord like this, it is a special name for God. Sometimes people write it as ‘Yahweh’, or as ‘Jehovah’. It is his own name that he told Moses. See Exodus 3:14. It means ‘I am who I am’. This shows that God has always been there and he always will be there.
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