Lamentations 1:4 meaning and explanation
The roads to Zion mourn, because no one comes to her appointed feasts. All her gates are deserted; her priests groan, her maidens grieve, and she herself is bitter with anguish.
Lamentations 1:4, Berean Standard Bible
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The speaker is the poet of Lamentations, voicing Jerusalem's grief after the Babylonian destruction of the city and temple. The roads to Zion, personified, mourn because the pilgrim festivals have ceased; the gates where justice and commerce once happened are empty.
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