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Lamentations 1:6

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What does Lamentations 1:6 say?

The American Standard Version records this verse as: “And from the daughter of Zion all her majesty is departed: Her princes are become like harts that find no pasture, And they are gone without strength before the pursuer.” Read the surrounding verses and the named sources below before drawing broader conclusions.

The verse

And from the daughter of Zion all her majesty is departed: Her princes are become like harts that find no pasture, And they are gone without strength before the pursuer.
Lamentations 1:6 — American Standard Version

Context — Lamentations 1

American Standard Version (1901) — public domain. Click any verse for its study page.
3Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude; She dwelleth among the nations, she findeth no rest: All her persecutors overtook her within the straits.
4The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn assembly; All her gates are desolate, her priests do sigh: Her virgins are afflicted, and she herself is in bitterness.
5Her adversaries are become the head, her enemies prosper; For Jehovah hath afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: Her young children are gone into captivity before the adversary.
6And from the daughter of Zion all her majesty is departed: Her princes are become like harts that find no pasture, And they are gone without strength before the pursuer.
7Jerusalem remembereth in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that were from the days of old: When her people fell into the hand of the adversary, and none did help her, The adversaries saw her, they did mock at her desolations.
8Jerusalem hath grievously sinned; therefore she is become as an unclean thing; All that honored her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness: Yea, she sigheth, and turneth backward.
9Her filthiness was in her skirts; she remembered not her latter end; Therefore is she come down wonderfully; she hath no comforter: Behold, O Jehovah, my affliction; for the enemy hath magnified himself.
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What do historical commentaries say?

John Gill's Exposition
John Gill (1697–1771) · Exposition of the Old and New Testament · 18th-century historical commentary
“And from the daughter of Zion all her beauty is departed, etc.] The kingdom removed; the priesthood ceased; the temple, their beautiful house, burnt; the palaces of their king and nobles demolished; and everything in church and state that was glorious were now no more: her princes are become like harts [that] find no pasture; that are heartless and without courage, fearful and timorous, as harts are, especially when destitute of food. The Targum is “her princes run about for food, as harts run about in the wilderness, and find no place fit for pasture:” and they are gone without strength before the pursuer; having no spirit nor courage to oppose the enemy, nor strength to flee from him, they…”
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Jamieson, Fausset & Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown · Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible · 19th-century historical commentary
“beauty . . . departed--her temple, throne, and priesthood. harts that find no pasture--an animal timid and fleet, especially when seeking and not able to "find pasture."”
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Barnes' Notes
Albert Barnes (1798–1870) · Notes on the Whole Bible · 19th-century historical commentary
“Her princes ... - Jeremiah had before his mind the sad flight of Zedekiah and his men of war, and their capture within a few miles of Jerusalem Jeremiah 39:4-5. return to 'Top of Page'”
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Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge
R. A. Torrey and contributors · The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge · Cross-reference reference work
“from: Kg2 19:21; Psa 48:2, Psa 48:3; Isa 1:21, Isa 4:5, Isa 12:6; Zep 3:14-17 all: Lam 2:1-7; Sa2 4:11, Sa2 4:12; Psa 50:2, Psa 96:9, Psa 132:12, Psa 132:13; Jer 52:8, Jer 52:11, Jer 52:13; Eze 7:20-22, Eze 11:22, Eze 11:23, Eze 24:21, Eze 24:25 her princes: Lev 26:36, Lev 26:37; Deu 28:25, Deu 32:30; Jos 7:12, Jos 7:13; Psa 44:9-11; Jer 29:4; Jer 48:41, Jer 51:30-32, Jer 52:7 harts: Jer 14:5, Jer 14:6, Jer 47:3 Lamentations 1:7”
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