Lamentations 1:6-8
1599 Geneva Bible
6 And from the daughter of Zion all her beauty is departed: her princes are become [a]like harts that find no pasture, and they are gone without strength before the pursuer.
7 Jerusalem remembered the days of her affliction, and of her rebellion, and all her pleasant things that she had in times past, when her people [b]fell into the hand of the enemy, and none did help her: the adversary saw her, and did mock at her [c]Sabbaths.
8 Jerusalem hath grievously sinned, therefore she is [d]in derision: all that honored her, despise her, because they have seen her filthiness: yea, she sigheth, and turneth backward.
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- Lamentations 1:6 As men pined away with sorrow and that have no courage.
- Lamentations 1:7 In her misery she considered the great benefits and commodities that she had lost.
- Lamentations 1:7 At her religion and serving of God, which was the greatest grief to the godly.
- Lamentations 1:8 Or, driven away.
Lamentations 1:6-8
The Voice
6 Faded beauty, this daughter Zion.
Her princely young men, like stags,
They have no place to graze, no strength to fight;
they fled to the woods,
Pursued mercilessly by hunters.
7 Gone are the days that she remembers, happy and precious;
Jerusalem wanders aimlessly and remembers what precious things she has lost—
Things from the old days of David, Solomon, and Josiah.
But now her people have fallen to her enemies,
And in this defeat by her enemies, no one ran to her aid,
and her enemies now snicker and gloat at her downfall.
8 Hideous must be Jerusalem’s crimes
that the city itself is now morally and ritually impure.
Those who once admired her now hate her.
They strip her naked and laugh.
All she can do is groan
and shrink back, ashamed.
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