Isaiah 3:26
And then shall her gates lament and mourn; and stript of all shall she sit upon the ground.
Leeser Tanakh
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 ones in the war.
Cross References
Job 2:8And [Job] took himself a potsherd to scrape himself there with, while he was sitting down among the ashes.
Isaiah 29:2Yet will I distress Ariel, and there shall be groaning and wailing: and it shall be unto me like Ariel.
Isaiah 47:1Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon; sit on the ground, there is no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans; for men shall nevermore call thee, Tender and delicate.
Lamentations 1:4The ways to Zion are in mourning, because none come to the solemn feasts; all her gates are desolate; her priests sigh; her virgins moan, and she suffereth herself from bitter grief.
Ezekiel 26:16Then shall all the princes of the sea come down from their thrones, and lay aside their robes, and their broidered garments shall they put off: with trembling shall they clothe themselves; upon the ground shall they sit, and shall tremble at every moment, and be astonished concerning thee.
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 →