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Lamentations 1:4

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4“The roads to Zion are deserted.b

No one comes to the annual festivals. 

No one passes through any of its gates.c

Its priests are groaning. 

Its young women are made to suffer. 

Zion is bitter. 

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Footnotes

  1. b1:4 Or “are in mourning.”
  2. c1:4 Or “All its gates are in despair.”

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

The roads to Zion mourn,

for none come to the festival;

all her gates are desolate;

her priests groan;

her virgins have been afflicted,

and she herself suffers bitterly.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

The roads to Zion mourn,

for no one comes to her appointed festivals.

All her gateways are desolate,

her priests groan,

her young women grieve,

and she is in bitter anguish.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

The roads to Zion mourn,

for no one comes to the appointed festivals.

All her gates are deserted;

her priests groan,

her young women grieve,

and she herself is bitter.

NLTNew Living Translation

The roads to Jerusalem are in mourning,

for crowds no longer come to celebrate the festivals.

The city gates are silent,

her priests groan,

her young women are crying—

how bitter is her fate!

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

The roads of Zion are mourning

because no one comes to the festival.

All her gates are desolate,

her priests groan;

her young women are worried,

and she herself suffers bitterly.

KJV 1900King James Version

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.