Lamentations 2:15

All that pass by clap their hands at thee; 1 they hiss and wag their head at Bat Yerushalayim, 1 saying: Is this the Ir that men call 1 Kelilat Yofi Masos L'Khol HaAretz 1 (perfection in beauty, the joy of the whole earth)? 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

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 nevi'im have seen false 1 and worthless visions for thee; 1 and they have not exposed thine avon, 1 to ward off thy captivity; 1 but have seen for thee mase'ot shav 1 and madduchim (false and misleading burdens, oracles). 1

16All thine enemies have opened their mouth against thee; 1 they hiss and gnash their teeth; 1 they cry: We have swallowed her! 1 This is the Yom that we waited for; 1 we have found, we have seen it. 1

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 29:22And that the whole land thereof is gofrit (sulfur), and melach (salt), and serefah (burning), that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any esev groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Amora, Admah, and Tzevoyim, which Hashem overthrew in His anger, and in His wrath:

1 Kings 9:8And at this Beis, which is elyon, every one that passeth by it shall be appalled, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why hath Hashem done thus unto HaAretz Hazot, and to this Beis?

2 Kings 19:21This is the davar that Hashem hath spoken concerning him: 1 The Betulat Bat Tziyon hath despised thee, 1 and laughed thee to scorn; 1 the Bat Yerushalayim 1 hath shaken her head at thee. 1

Job 27:22For it will hurl against him, without sparing; 1 he desperately flees from its yad. 1

Psalms 44:14Thou makest us a cherpah (reproach) to our shchenim (neighbors), 1 a scorn and a derision to them that are all around us. 1

Psalms 48:2Gadol is Hashem, 1 and greatly to be praised in the Ir Eloheinu, 1 in His Har Kodesh. 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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