Lamentations 5:18
“Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.”
The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!
For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.
Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.
Thou, O Lord, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.
Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?
Counter-Arguments
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Cross-References
“As for these things which ye behold, the days will come, in the which there shall not be left one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.”
“And Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took firebrands, and turned tail to tail, and put a firebrand in the midst between two tails.”
“And I will bring the land into desolation: and your enemies which dwell therein shall be astonished at it.”
“In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.”
“Yet the defenced city shall be desolate, and the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof.”