Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she being desolate shall sit upon the ground.
Her gates
General references
Bible References
Her gates
Jeremiah 14:2
Judah mourns and its gates collapse. The people of Judah are filled with bereavement as they sit on the ground. Their cry goes up from Jerusalem.
Lamentations 1:4
The roads to Zion are sad. No one comes to the holy meeting. All her doorways are desolate. Her priests are sighing out of sorrow. Her virgins are troubled, and it is bitter for her.
Shall sit
Isaiah 47:1
Come down and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon. Sit on the ground without a throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans! For you will no longer be called tender and delicate.
Job 2:8
Job took a piece of broken pottery to scratch his sores as he sat in the ashes.
Lamentations 2:10
The elders of the daughter of Zion are seated on the earth and keep silent. They throw dust on their heads. They are clothed in sackcloth. The heads of the virgins of Jerusalem are brought down to the earth.
Ezekiel 26:16
Then all the princes of the sea will go down from their thrones and remove their robes and strip off their embroidered garments. They will clothe themselves with trembling. They will sit on the ground, tremble every moment and be appalled at you.
Luke 19:44
They will knock you and your children down to the ground. They will not leave one stone upon another. What's more you do not know when this visit will take place.
General references
Ezekiel 12:20
The inhabited cities will be laid waste and the land will be a desolation. So you will know that I am Jehovah.'