Lamentations 5:18

Lamentations chapter 5 · verse 18 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

World English Bible · 2000

For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate: The foxes walk upon it.

King James Version · 1611

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

American Standard Version · 1901

For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate: The foxes walk upon it.

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

v.18This passage

v.19Thou, O Jehovah, abidest for ever; Thy throne is from generation to generation.

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

Isaiah 32:13
Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city.
Lamentations 2:8
Jehovah hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion; He hath stretched out the line, he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying; And he hath made the rampart and wall to lament; they languish together.
Jeremiah 26:9
Why hast thou prophesied in the name of Jehovah, saying, This house shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate, without inhabitant? And all the people were gathered unto Jeremiah in the house of Jehovah.
Jeremiah 17:3
O my mountain in the field, I will give thy substance and all thy treasures for a spoil, and thy high places, because of sin, throughout all thy borders.
Jeremiah 9:11
And I will make Jerusalem heaps, a dwelling-place of jackals; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.
Micah 3:12
Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.