Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.
Jeremiah wrote it as part of the book of Lamentations, which consists of poetic Hebrew acrostics. It stands in the fifth lament, a separate mournful poem complete in itself with its own distinct subject within the one plan of the whole book, having twenty-two verses but without the alphabetic acrostic order of the first four chapters. It belongs to Jeremiah's weeping over the ruin of his country, a ruin he had seen coming and foretold as inevitable, sharing the woes of his people that he could not induce them to avert, while holding that a covenant God still reigns.
It describes and predicts Mount Zion, the holy hill at Jerusalem, as desolate with foxes, or wild animals, walking and roaming upon it, showing the devastation of Jerusalem and its holy mountain.
The sight of a fox on the hill fulfilled its words and showed that God had carried out his threatened judgment. That fulfillment serves as a pledge that none of God's promises will fail, since he is more ready to show mercy than judgment. This desolation has happened in history as proof that the Bible bears a divine Mind and that prophetic vision is accurate in scope and detail.
Jeremiah wrote it as part of the book of Lamentations, which consists of poetic Hebrew acrostics. It stands in the fifth lament, a separate mournful poem complete in itself with its own distinct subject within the one plan of the whole book, having twenty-two verses but without the alphabetic acrostic order of the first four chapters. It belongs to Jeremiah's weeping over the ruin of his country, a ruin he had seen coming and foretold as inevitable, sharing the woes of his people that he could not induce them to avert, while holding that a covenant God still reigns.
It describes and predicts Mount Zion, the holy hill at Jerusalem, as desolate with foxes, or wild animals, walking and roaming upon it, showing the devastation of Jerusalem and its holy mountain.
The sight of a fox on the hill fulfilled its words and showed that God had carried out his threatened judgment. That fulfillment serves as a pledge that none of God's promises will fail, since he is more ready to show mercy than judgment. This desolation has happened in history as proof that the Bible bears a divine Mind and that prophetic vision is accurate in scope and detail.