Isaiah 3:26
The gates of Zion will cry and mourn. The city will be like a banished woman sitting on the ground.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she being desolate shall sit upon the ground.
In Context
25Your men will be killed by the sword; your soldiers will die in battle.
Cross References
Job 2:8Job picked up a piece of broken pottery to scratch himself as he sat in ashes.
Isaiah 29:2But I'm going to cause trouble for Ariel; the city will cry and mourn, it will be like an altar hearth to me.
Isaiah 47:1Go down and sit in the dust, virgin daughter of Babylon. Sit on the ground without a throne, daughter of Babylonia! No longer will people call you gentle and delicate.
Lamentations 1:4Even the roads to Zion are in mourning because no one travels on them to go to the religious festivals. All her gates are empty. Her priests groan in sadness. Her girls are suffering. She herself is in bitter distress.
Ezekiel 26:16All the rulers of the coastlands will come down from their thrones, remove their royal robes, and take off their embroidered clothes. Instead they will be clothed with terror and sit on the ground, trembling the whole time, shocked at what's happened to you.
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 →