Isaiah 3:26
And her gates shall lament and mourn, and she shall be desolate and sit upon the ground.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she being desolate shall sit upon the ground.
In Context
25Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the war.
Cross References
Job 2:8And he took a potsherd for him to scrape himself with it, and he sat among the ashes.
Isaiah 29:2Then I will distress Ariel, and there shall be mourning and lamentation, and she shall be to me as Ariel.
Isaiah 47:1Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon. Sit on the ground without a throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans. For thou shall no more be called tender and delicate.
Lamentations 1:4The ways of Zion mourn, because none come to the solemn assembly. All her gates are desolate. Her priests sigh. Her virgins are afflicted, and she herself is in bitterness.
Ezekiel 26:16Then all the rulers of the sea shall come down from their thrones, and lay aside their robes, and strip off their broidered garments. They shall clothe themselves with trembling. They shall sit upon the ground, and shall tremble ev
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 3:17-26
The Vanity of the Daughters of Zion. ( b. c. 758.) 16 Moreover the Lord saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet: 17 Therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the Lord will discover their secret parts. 18 In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their tinkling ornaments about their feet, and their cauls, and their round… Read the whole commentary →