Lamentations 1:4
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.
Context
This verse from Lamentations Chapter 1 connects to 10 cross-references. The first lament personifies Jerusalem as a widow, formerly great among nations, now grieving and desolate, her roads mourning, her priests groaning, her children gone. Judah has gone into exile. The poem is an alphabetic acrostic in which Zion confesses …
תרגומים נוספים
The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn assembly; All her gates are desolate, her priests do sigh: Her virgins are afflicted, and she herself is in bitterness.
The ways of Zion are mourning, Without any coming at the appointed time, All her gates are desolate, her priests sigh, Her virgins are afflicted--and she hath bitterness.
The ways of Zion are sad, because no one comes to the holy meeting; all her doorways are made waste, her priests are breathing out sorrow: her virgins are troubled, and it is bitter for her.
הפניות צולבות
The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, the haughty people of the earth do languish.
Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth …
Rise up, ye women that are at ease; hear my voice, ye careless daughters; give ear unto my speech.
Because the palaces shall be forsaken; the multitude of the city shall be left; the forts and towers shall be …
And I will make Jerusalem heaps, and a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, …
Behold, the noise of the bruit is come, and a great commotion out of the north country, to make the …
Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish; they are black unto the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone …
Thus saith the Lord; Again there shall be heard in this place, which ye say shall be desolate without man …
Thus saith the Lord of hosts; Again in this place, which is desolate without man and without beast, and in …
All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their pleasant things for meat to relieve the soul: see, …