Isaiah 3:26
Then shall her gates mourne and lament, and she, being desolate, shall sit vpon the ground.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she being desolate shall sit upon the ground.
In Context
25Thy men shall fall by the sworde, and thy strength in the battell.
Cross References
Job 2:8And he tooke a potsharde to scrape him, and he sate downe among the ashes.
Isaiah 29:2But I wil bring the altar into distresse, and there shalbe heauines and sorowe, and it shall be vnto me like an altar.
Isaiah 47:1Come downe and sit in the dust: O virgine, daughter Babel, sit on the ground: there is no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called, Tender and delicate.
Lamentations 1:4The wayes of Zion lament, because no man commeth to the solemne feastes: all her gates are desolate: her Priests sigh: her virgins are discomfited, and she is in heauinesse.
Ezekiel 26:16Then all the princes of the sea shall come downe from their thrones: they shall lay away their robes, and put off their broydered garments, and shall clothe themselues with astonishment: they shall sitte vpon the ground, and be astonished at euery moment, and be amased at thee.
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 →