Isaiah 3:26
And lamented and mourned have her openings, Yea, she hath been emptied, on the earth she sitteth!
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she being desolate shall sit upon the ground.
In Context
25For instead of glory, thy men by sword do fall, And thy might in battle.
Cross References
Job 2:8And he taketh to him a potsherd to scrape himself with it, and he is sitting in the midst of the ashes.
Isaiah 29:2And I have sent distress to Ariel, And it hath been lamentation and mourning, And it hath been to me as Ariel.
Isaiah 47:1Come down, and sit on the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, Sit on the earth, there is no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans, For no more do they cry to thee, 'O tender and delicate one.'
Lamentations 1:4The ways of Zion are mourning, Without any coming at the appointed time, All her gates are desolate, her priests sigh, Her virgins are afflicted — and she hath bitterness.
Ezekiel 26:16And come down from off their thrones have all princes of the sea, And they have turned aside their robes, And their embroidered garments strip off, Trembling they put on, on the earth they sit, And they have trembled every moment, And they have been astonished 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 →