Lamentations 2:10

The Ziknei Bat Tziyon sit upon the ground, 1 and keep silence; 1 they have cast up aphar upon their heads; 1 they have girded themselves with sackcloth; 1 the Betulot Yerushalayim hang down 1 their heads to the ground. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

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 she'arim are sunk into the ground; 1 He hath destroyed and broken her bars; 1 her melech and her sarim (princes) are among the Goyim; 1 the torah is no more; 1 her nevi'im also find no chazon (vision) from Hashem. 1

11Mine eyes do fail from weepings, 1 my insides are troubled, 1 empty and poured upon ha'aretz, 1 for the destruction of Bat Ami; 1 because the olel and the infant 1 swoon in the rechovot of the city. 1

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Cross References

Joshua 7:6And Yehoshua tore his clothes, and fell to the ground upon his face before the Aron Hashem until erev, he and the Ziknei Yisroel, and they put dust upon their heads.

Job 2:12And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and recognized him not, they lifted up their voice, and wept; and they made the keri'ah every one on his mantle, and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward Shomayim.

Isaiah 3:26And her gates shall lament and mourn; 1 and she being desolate shall sit upon ha'aretz.

Isaiah 36:22Then came Elyakim Ben Chilkiyah, that was over the Bais, and Shevna the Sofer, and Yoach Ben Asaph, the Mazkir, to Chizkiyah with their begadim torn, and told him the words of Rav Shakeh.

Isaiah 47:5Sit thou silent, and get thee into choshech, 1 O Bat Kasdim (Chaldeans); 1 for thou shalt no more be called, 1 Geveret Mamlachot (The Lady of Kingdoms). 1

Lamentations 1:1How doth HaIr (the city, Yerushalayim) sit solitary, 1 that was full of people! 1 How is she become like an almanah (widow)! 1 She that was great among the Goyim, 1 and sarah (princess) among the provinces, 1 how is she become a forced laborer! 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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