Lamentations 2:10

The elders of the daughter of Zion 1 Have sat upon the ground, 1 They have kept silence: 1 They have cast up dust upon their heads; 1 They have girded themselves with sackcloth: 1 They have brought down to the ground 1 The chief virgins in Jerusalem. 1

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

9Her gates are sunk into the ground: 1 He has destroyed and broken to pieces her bars, 1 And her king and her prince among the Gentiles: 1 There is no law, 1 Nay, her prophets have seen no vision from the Lord. 1

11Mine eyes have failed with tears, 1 My heart is troubled, 1 My glory is cast down to the ground, 1 For the destruction of the daughter of my people; 1 While the infant and suckling swoon 1 In the streets of the city. 1

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Cross References

Joshua 7:6And Joshua tore his garments; and Joshua fell on the earth on his face before the Lord until evening, he and the elders of Israel; and they cast dust on their heads.

Job 2:12And when they saw him from a distance they did not know him; 1 And they cried with a loud voice, and wept, 1 And rent every one his garment, 1 And sprinkled dust upon their heads, 1

Isaiah 3:26And the stores of your ornaments shall mourn, and thou shalt be left alone, and shalt be leveled with the ground.

Isaiah 36:22And Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, the steward, and Shebna the military scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph, the recorder, came in to Hezekiah, having their garments rent, and they reported to him the words of Rabshakeh.

Isaiah 47:5Sit thou down pierced with woe, go into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans: thou shalt no more be called the strength of a kingdom.

Lamentations 1:1How does the city that was filled with people sit solitary! 1 She is become as a widow: 1 She that was magnified among the nations, 1 And princess among the provinces, 1 Has become tributary. 1

Matthew Henry on Lamentations 2:2-10

Cause, Extent, and Greatness of Zion's Calamities. ( b. c. 588.) 1 How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger, and cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel, and remembered not his footstool in the day of his anger! 2 The Lord hath swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and hath not pitied: he hath thrown down in his wrath the strong holds of the daughter of Judah; he hath brought them down to the ground: he hath polluted the kingdom and the princes thereof. 3 He… Read the whole commentary →

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