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Lamentations 5:18

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5:18For wild animals35 are prowling over Mount Zion,

which lies desolate.

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Footnotes

  1. 35 Heb “jackals.” The term “jackals” is a synecdoche of species (= jackals) for general (= wild animals).

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

for Mount Zion which lies desolate;

jackals prowl over it.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

for Mount Zion, which lies desolate,

with jackals prowling over it.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

because of Mount Zion, which lies desolate

and has jackals prowling in it.

NLTNew Living Translation

For Jerusalem is empty and desolate,

a place haunted by jackals.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

Because of Mount Zion, which lies desolate,

foxes tread on it.

KJV 1900King James Version

Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate,

The foxes walk upon it.