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Lamentations 1:4-6
Contemporary English Version
Lamentations 1:4-6
Contemporary English Version
4 The roads to Zion mourn
because no one travels there
to celebrate the festivals.
The city gates are deserted;
priests are weeping.
Young women are raped;[a]
Zion is in sorrow!
5 Enemies now rule the city
and live as they please.
The Lord has punished Jerusalem
because of her awful sins;
he has let her people
be dragged away.
6 Zion's glory has disappeared.
Her leaders are like deer
that cannot find pasture;
they are hunted down
till their strength is gone.
Footnotes
- 1.4 raped: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.
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