Holy Scripture

Lamentations 5:18

A church father on this verse
“This refers much more directly to the time of the New Testament, when Scripture was made evident, and mostly toward the end, when those Scriptures were understood which had not been understood before. For then there shall be a "mountain," that is, the contemplative Church; then, "there shall be no harm" when the monst…”
Bonaventure, 13th c. — Collations on the Hexaemeron, Collation 13

Source: Septuagint

Original

18Over the mountain of Zion, because it is made desolate, Foxes have walked therein.

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16The crown has fallen from our head: Yea, woe to us! for we have sinned.

17For this has grief come; our heart is sorrowful: For this our eyes are darkened.

— Lamentations 5:18 —

19But thou, O Lord, shalt dwell forever; Thy throne shall endure to generation and generation.

20Wherefore wilt thou utterly forget us, And abandon us a long time?

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