Lamentations 2:15

All those who pass along the road clap their hands at you. 1 They hiss and shake their heads against the daughter of Jerusalem and say, 1 “Is this the city that they called 'The Perfection of Beauty,' 'The Joy for All of Earth'?” 1

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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

14Your prophets have seen false and worthless visions for you. 1 They have not exposed your iniquity to restore your fortunes, 1 but for you they gave utterances that are false and misleading. 1

16All your enemies open their mouths against you. 1 They sneer and grind their teeth in rage and say, “We have swallowed her up! 1 This is the day we have waited for! We have lived to see it!” 1

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 29:22The generation to come, your children who will rise up after you, and the foreigner who comes from a distant land, will speak when they see the plagues on this land and the diseases with which Yahweh has made it sick—

1 Kings 9:8This temple will become a heap of ruins, and everyone who passes by it will be shocked and will hiss. They will ask, 'Why has Yahweh done this to this land and to this house?'

2 Kings 19:21This is the word that Yahweh has spoken about him: 1 “The virgin daughter of Zion 2 despises you and laughs you to scorn. 1 The daughter of Jerusalem 2 shakes her head at you. 1

Job 27:22It throws itself at him and does not stop; 1 he tries to flee out of its hand. 1

Psalms 44:14You make us an insult among the nations, 1 a shaking of the head among the peoples. 1

Psalms 48:2Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earth, 1 is Mount Zion, on the sides of the north, 1 the city of the great King. 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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