Lamentations 2:15

SAMECH. All that go by the way have clapped their hands at you; they have hissed and shaken their head at the daughter of Jerusalem. Is this the city, they say, the crown of joy of all the earth?

LXX2012 (US English)

In The King James Version

All that pass by clap their hands at thee; they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city that men call The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?

In Context

14NUN. Your prophets have seen for you vanities and folly: and they have not revealed your iniquity, to turn back your captivity; but they have seen for you vain burdens, and worthless visions.

16AIN. All your enemies have opened their mouth against you: they have hissed and gnashed their teeth, and said, We have swallowed her up: moreover this is the day which we looked for; we have found it, we have seen it.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 29:22And another generation shall say—even your sons who shall rise up after you, and the stranger who shall come from a land afar off, and shall see the plagues of that land and their diseases, which the Lord has sent upon it,

1 Kings 9:8And this house, which is high, shall be so that every one that passes + 9:8 Gr. through it. by it shall be amazed, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Therefore has the Lord done thus to this land, and to this house?

2 Kings 19:21This is the word which the Lord has spoken against him; The virgin daughter of Sion has made light of you, and mocked you; the daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at you.

Job 27:22And God shall cast trouble upon him, and not spare: he would fain flee out of his hand.

Psalms 44:14in embroidered clothing: virgins shall be brought to the king after her: her fellows shall be brought to you. 1

Psalms 48:2both the + 48:2 Gr. earth-born. sons of mean men, and sons of great men; the rich and poor man together. 1

Matthew Henry on Lamentations 2:11-22

Complicated Sorrows. ( b. c. 588.) 10 The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, and keep silence: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground. 11 Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city. 12 They say to their mothers, Where is corn… Read the whole commentary →

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