"Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it."
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Then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all people:
Remember thy congregation, which thou hast purchased of old; the rod of thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed; this mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt.
Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city:
And I will make Jerusalem heaps, and a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.
O my mountain in the field, I will give thy substance and all thy treasures to the spoil, and thy high places for sin, throughout all thy borders.
Why hast thou prophesied in the name of the LORD, saying, This house shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate without an inhabitant? And all the people were gathered against Jeremiah in the house of the LORD.
And 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:
The LORD hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion: he hath stretched out a line, he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying: therefore he made the rampart and the wall to lament; they languished together.
Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.
Because of the mountain of Zion which is a waste; jackals go over it.
Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate: foxes walk over it.
Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.
Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.
For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate: The foxes walk on it.
For the mount of Zion -- that is desolate, Foxes have gone up on it.