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Lamentations 1:6

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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.
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  1. Ezekiel 24:25Rank 1 from verse 6
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    25Also, thou son of man, shall it not be in the day when I take from them their strength, the joy of their glory, the desire of their eyes, and that whereupon they set their minds, their sons and their daughters,

  2. 2 Kings 19:21Rank 2 from verse 6
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    21This is the word that the Lord hath spoken concerning him; The virgin the daughter of Zion hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee.

  3. 2 Samuel 4:11–12Rank 3 from verse 6
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    11How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house upon his bed? shall I not therefore now require his blood of your hand, and take you away from the earth?

    12And David commanded his young men, and they slew them, and cut off their hands and their feet, and hanged them up over the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ish-bosheth, and buried it in the sepulchre of Abner in Hebron.

  4. Deuteronomy 28:25Rank 4 from verse 6
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    25The Lord shall cause thee to be smitten before thine enemies: thou shalt go out one way against them, and flee seven ways before them: and shalt be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.

  5. Deuteronomy 32:30Rank 5 from verse 6
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    30How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the Lord had shut them up?

  6. Ezekiel 11:22–23Rank 6 from verse 6
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    22¶ Then did the cherubims lift up their wings, and the wheels beside them; and the glory of the God of Israel was over them above.

    23And the glory of the Lord went up from the midst of the city, and stood upon the mountain which is on the east side of the city.

  7. Ezekiel 24:21Rank 7 from verse 6
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    21Speak unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the excellency of your strength, the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul pitieth; and your sons and your daughters whom ye have left shall fall by the sword.

  8. Ezekiel 7:20–22Rank 8 from verse 6
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    20¶ As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty: but they made the images of their abominations and of their detestable things therein: therefore have I set it far from them.

    21And I will give it into the hands of the strangers for a prey, and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they shall pollute it.

    22My face will I turn also from them, and they shall pollute my secret place: for the robbers shall enter into it, and defile it.

  9. Isaiah 1:21Rank 9 from verse 6
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    21¶ How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.

  10. Isaiah 12:6Rank 10 from verse 6
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    6Cry out and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion: for great is the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee.

  11. Isaiah 4:5Rank 11 from verse 6
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    5And the Lord will create upon every dwelling place of mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night: for upon all the glory shall be a defence.

  12. Jeremiah 13:18Rank 12 from verse 6
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    18Say unto the king and to the queen, Humble yourselves, sit down: for your principalities shall come down, even the crown of your glory.

  13. Jeremiah 14:5–6Rank 13 from verse 6
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    5Yea, the hind also calved in the field, and forsook it, because there was no grass.

    6And the wild asses did stand in the high places, they snuffed up the wind like dragons; their eyes did fail, because there was no grass.

  14. Jeremiah 29:4Rank 14 from verse 6
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    4Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, unto all that are carried away captives, whom I have caused to be carried away from Jerusalem unto Babylon;

  15. Jeremiah 47:3Rank 15 from verse 6
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    3At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his strong horses, at the rushing of his chariots, and at the rumbling of his wheels, the fathers shall not look back to their children for feebleness of hands;

  16. Jeremiah 48:41Rank 16 from verse 6
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    41Kerioth is taken, and the strong holds are surprised, and the mighty men’s hearts in Moab at that day shall be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.

  17. Jeremiah 51:30–32Rank 17 from verse 6
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    30The mighty men of Babylon have forborn to fight, they have remained in their holds: their might hath failed; they became as women: they have burned her dwellingplaces; her bars are broken.

    31One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to shew the king of Babylon that his city is taken at one end,

    32And that the passages are stopped, and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of war are affrighted.

  18. Jeremiah 52:11Rank 18 from verse 6
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    11Then he put out the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound him in chains, and carried him to Babylon, and put him in prison till the day of his death.

  19. Jeremiah 52:13Rank 19 from verse 6
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    13And burned the house of the Lord, and the king’s house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, and all the houses of the great men, burned he with fire:

  20. Jeremiah 52:7–8Rank 20 from verse 6
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    7Then the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled, and went forth out of the city by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king’s garden; (now the Chaldeans were by the city round about:) and they went by the way of the plain.

    8¶ But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him.

  21. Joshua 7:12–13Rank 21 from verse 6
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    12Therefore the children of Israel could not stand before their enemies, but turned their backs before their enemies, because they were accursed: neither will I be with you any more, except ye destroy the accursed from among you.

    13Up, sanctify the people, and say, Sanctify yourselves against to morrow: for thus saith the Lord God of Israel, There is an accursed thing in the midst of thee, O Israel: thou canst not stand before thine enemies, until ye take away the accursed thing from among you.

  22. Lamentations 2:1–7Rank 22 from verse 6
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    1HOW hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger, and cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel, and remembered not his footstool in the day of his anger!

    2The Lord hath swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and hath not pitied: he hath thrown down in his wrath the strong holds of the daughter of Judah; he hath brought them down to the ground: he hath polluted the kingdom and the princes thereof.

    3He hath cut off in his fierce anger all the horn of Israel: he hath drawn back his right hand from before the enemy, and he burned against Jacob like a flaming fire, which devoureth round about.

    4He hath bent his bow like an enemy: he stood with his right hand as an adversary, and slew all that were pleasant to the eye in the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion: he poured out his fury like fire.

    5The Lord was as an enemy: he hath swallowed up Israel, he hath swallowed up all her palaces: he hath destroyed his strong holds, and hath increased in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.

    6And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden: he hath destroyed his places of the assembly: the Lord hath caused the solemn feasts and sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion, and hath despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest.

    7The Lord hath cast off his altar, he hath abhorred his sanctuary, he hath given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces; they have made a noise in the house of the Lord, as in the day of a solemn feast.

  23. Leviticus 26:36–37Rank 23 from verse 6
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    36And upon them that are left alive of you I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; and the sound of a shaken leaf shall chase them; and they shall flee, as fleeing from a sword; and they shall fall when none pursueth.

    37And they shall fall one upon another, as it were before a sword, when none pursueth: and ye shall have no power to stand before your enemies.

  24. Psalms 132:12–13Rank 24 from verse 6
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    12If thy children will keep my covenant and my testimony that I shall teach them, their children shall also sit upon thy throne for evermore.

    13For the Lord hath chosen Zion; he hath desired it for his habitation.

  25. Psalms 44:9–11Rank 25 from verse 6
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    9But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest not forth with our armies.

    10Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy: and they which hate us spoil for themselves.

    11Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat; and hast scattered us among the heathen.

  26. Psalms 48:2–3Rank 26 from verse 6
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    2Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King.

    3God is known in her palaces for a refuge.

  27. Psalms 50:2Rank 27 from verse 6
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    2Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined.

  28. Psalms 96:9Rank 28 from verse 6
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    9O worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness: fear before him, all the earth.

  29. Zephaniah 3:14–17Rank 29 from verse 6
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    14¶ Sing, O daughter of Zion; shout, O Israel; be glad and rejoice with all the heart, O daughter of Jerusalem.

    15The Lord hath taken away thy judgments, he hath cast out thine enemy: the king of Israel, even the Lord, is in the midst of thee: thou shalt not see evil any more.

    16In that day it shall be said to Jerusalem, Fear thou not: and to Zion, Let not thine hands be slack.

    17The Lord thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his love, he will joy over thee with singing.

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Lamentations 1:6

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beauty

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The quality or appearance of being fair, comely, pleasing, excellent, or glorious.

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departed

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1. Left, went away, or moved from a place or person. 2. Ceased to remain, was removed, disappeared, or passed away. 3. Turned or separated from a way, practice, allegiance, or relationship. 4. Left earthly life or this world.

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COMBINED MEANING

like

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Sense 1: Similar or of the same kind; in the same manner; likely. Sense 2: A like person or thing; an equal or counterpart. Sense 3: To please, choose, or regard with favour.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

find

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To discover, meet with, obtain, perceive, or learn by search or experience.

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gone

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Departed, went away, passed, or advanced to another place or condition.

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without

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Outside or on the exterior; beyond a boundary; lacking, absent, free from, not accompanied by, or apart from the person, thing, condition, means, or relation named.

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strength

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Power, might, force, ability, firmness, courage, capacity, support, defence, resources, or that by which a person or thing is enabled to stand, act, endure, overcome, or accomplish a work.

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before

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Earlier than in time; in front of; in the presence of; or prior in order or rank.

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1:5Her 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.

1:6And 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.

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1:7Jerusalem 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.

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