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The Places of Lamentations

Lamentations names 8 places; Jerusalem, Zion and Edom most often. 8 of them can be put on a map, 6 with confidence. The places and their references are OpenBible.info’s, which gathers what modern atlases and commentaries say about where each one stood.

Map of Egypt, Sinai and Canaan with the places named in Lamentations. Every place is listed in the table below.30°E35°E30°NJerusalemZionMount ZionSodomJerusalemZionEdomEgyptSodomN0200 km
  • Located with confidence
  • Location uncertain
  • Mountain
Egypt, Sinai and Canaan, with the coasts and lakes as they lie today. 1 place lies beyond the plate and is in the table.

Every place in Lamentations

The most often named first. Each place is set where its source puts it, and nowhere else; a place no source locates is listed and not drawn. References follow the chapter and verse numbering of the English Bible, which differs from the Septuagint’s in places.

PlaceReferencesSourceConfidence
Jerusalem1:1, 1:5, 1:7, 1:8, 1:17, 1:18, 2:2, 2:5, 2:7, 2:10, 2:13, 2:15 and 3 moreOpenBible.infoHigh
Zion1:4, 1:6, 1:17, 2:1, 2:4, 2:6, 2:8, 2:9, 2:10, 2:13, 2:18, 4:2 and 3 moreOpenBible.infoHigh
Edom4:21, 4:22OpenBible.infoHigh
AssyriaBeyond this plate.5:6OpenBible.infoHigh
Egypt5:6OpenBible.infoHigh
Mount Zion5:18OpenBible.infoHigh
Sodom4:6OpenBible.infoUncertain (score 477)
Uz4:21OpenBible.infoUncertain (score 150)

Places from OpenBible.info’s Bible Geocoding Data, under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence, and from Pleiades, © the Pleiades contributors, under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 licence. Coastlines, lakes and rivers from Natural Earth; relief from SRTM and ETOPO1 elevation data by way of the AWS Terrain Tiles; all public domain.