Lamentations 1:6 — Bible Verse (KJV)
“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.”
Lamentations 1:6 — King James Version (KJV), 1611
Lamentations 1:6 in 6 Bible Translations
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Lamentations 1:6 WEB — World English Bible (2000)
“All majesty has departed from the daughter of Zion. Her princes have become like deer that find no pasture. They have gone without strength before the pursuer.”
Lamentations 1:6 — World English Bible
Lamentations 1:6 ASV — American Standard Version (1901)
“And from the daughter of Zion all her majesty is departed: Her princes are become like harts that find no pasture, And they are gone without strength before the pursuer. ”
Lamentations 1:6 — American Standard Version
Lamentations 1:6 YLT — Young's Literal Translation (1862)
“And go out from the daughter of Zion doth all her honour, Her princes have been as harts--They have not found pasture, And they go powerless before a pursuer.”
Lamentations 1:6 — Young's Literal Translation
Lamentations 1:6 DBY — Darby Translation (1890)
“And from the daughter of Zion all her splendour is departed: her princes are become like harts that find no pasture; and they are gone without strength before the pursuer.”
Lamentations 1:6 — Darby Translation
Lamentations 1:6 GEN — Geneva Bible (1599)
“And from the daughter of Zion all her beautie is departed: her princes are become like harts that finde no pasture, and they are gone without strength before the pursuer.”
Lamentations 1:6 — Geneva Bible
Lamentations 1:6 in Context — 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.
5 Her adversaries are the chief, her enemies prosper; for the Lord hath afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: her children are gone into captivity before the enemy.
6 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.
7 Jerusalem remembered in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that she had in the days of old, when her people fell into the hand of the enemy, and none did help her: the adversaries saw her, and did mock at her sabbaths.
8 Jerusalem hath grievously sinned; therefore she is removed: all that honoured her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness: yea, she sigheth, and turneth backward.
What Does Lamentations 1:6 Mean?
Lamentations 1:6 is a verse from the Book of Lamentations, part of the Old Testament. It appears in Lamentations chapter 1. Use The Living Sword's word-by-word study mode to explore every word in the original Hebrew and Aramaic.
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