Isaiah 3:26
Jerusalem's gates will lament and mourn; and she will be alone and sit upon the ground.
Unlocked Literal Bible
In The King James Version
And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she being desolate shall sit upon the ground.
In Context
25Your men will fall by the sword, and your strong men will fall in war. 1
Cross References
Job 2:8Job took a piece of broken pottery to scrape himself with, and he sat down in the middle of ashes.
Isaiah 29:2But I will besiege Ariel, and she will be mourning and lamenting; 1 and she will be to me like Ariel. 1
Isaiah 47:1Come down and sit in the dust, virgin daughter of Babylon; 1 sit on the ground without a throne, daughter of the Chaldeans. 1 You will no longer be called dainty and delicate. 1
Lamentations 1:4The roads of Zion mourn because none come to the appointed feasts. 1 All her gates are desolate. Her priests groan. 1 Her virgins are sorrowful and she herself is in complete distress. 1
Ezekiel 26:16Then all the princes of the sea will step down from their thrones and remove their robes and cast off their embroidered garments. They will clothe themselves with trembling, they will sit on the ground and tremble every moment, and they will be appalled because of you.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 3:17-26
The Vanity of the Daughters of Zion. ( b. c. 758.) 16 Moreover the Lord saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet: 17 Therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the Lord will discover their secret parts. 18 In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their tinkling ornaments about their feet, and their cauls, and their round… Read the whole commentary →