Lamentations 2:15

All that go by the way 1 Have clapped their hands at thee; 1 They have hissed and shaken their head 1 At the daughter of Jerusalem. 1 Is this the city, they say, 1 The crown of joy of all the earth? 1

Updated Brenton Septuagint

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

14Thy prophets have seen for thee 1 Vanities and folly: 1 And they have not discovered thine iniquity, 1 To turn back thy captivity; 1 But they have seen for thee vain burdens, 1 And worthless visions. 1

16All thine enemies have opened their mouth against thee: 1 They have hissed and gnashed their teeth, 1 And said, We have swallowed her up: 1 Moreover this is the day which we looked for; 1 We have found it, we have seen it. 1

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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 everyone that passes by it shall be amazed, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Wherefore 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 Zion has made light of thee, and mocked thee; the daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at thee.

Job 27:22And God shall cast trouble upon him, and not spare: 1 He would fain flee out of his hand. 1

Psalms 44:14All her glory is that of the daughter of the king of Heshbon, 1 Robed as she is in golden fringed garments,

Psalms 48:2Hear these words, all ye nations, 1 Hearken, all ye that dwell upon the earth: 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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