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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.
Lamentations 1:4-6
New International Version
Lamentations 1:4-6
New International Version
4 The roads to Zion mourn,(A)
for no one comes to her appointed festivals.
All her gateways are desolate,(B)
her priests groan,
her young women grieve,
and she is in bitter anguish.(C)
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