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Selected Verse: Lamentations 1:6 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| La 1:6 |
Strong Concordance |
And from the daughter [01323] of Zion [06726] all her beauty [01926] is departed [03318]: her princes [08269] are become like harts [0354] that find [04672] no pasture [04829], and they are gone [03212] without strength [03581] before [06440] the pursuer [07291]. |
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King James |
And from the daughter of Zion all her beauty is departed: her princes are become like harts that find no pasture, and they are gone without strength before the pursuer. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
beauty . . . departed--her temple, throne, and priesthood.
harts that find no pasture--an animal timid and fleet, especially when seeking and not able to "find pasture." |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
| Her princes ... - Jeremiah had before his mind the sad flight of Zedekiah and his men of war, and their capture within a few miles of Jerusalem Jer 39:4-5. |
4 And it came to pass, that when Zedekiah [06667] the king [04428] of Judah [03063] saw [07200] them, and all the men [0582] of war [04421], then they fled [01272], and went forth [03318] out of the city [05892] by night [03915], by the way [01870] of the king's [04428] garden [01588], by the gate [08179] betwixt the two walls [02346]: and he went out [03318] the way [01870] of the plain [06160].
5 But the Chaldeans [03778]' army [02428] pursued [07291] after [0310] them, and overtook [05381] Zedekiah [06667] in the plains [06160] of Jericho [03405]: and when they had taken [03947] him, they brought him up [05927] to Nebuchadnezzar [05019] king [04428] of Babylon [0894] to Riblah [07247] in the land [0776] of Hamath [02574], where he gave [01696] judgment [04941] upon him.