Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

They shall lament for the teats, for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.

General references

Bible References

Lament

Lamentations 2:11
My eyes fail because of tears,
My spirit is greatly troubled;
My heart is poured out on the earth
Because of the destruction of the daughter of my people,
When little ones and infants faint
In the streets of the city.
Lamentations 4:3
Even jackals offer the breast,
They nurse their young;
But the daughter of my people has become cruel
Like ostriches in the wilderness.

Pleasant fields

Deuteronomy 8:7
For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, flowing forth in valleys and hills;
Deuteronomy 11:11
But the land into which you are about to cross to possess it, a land of hills and valleys, drinks water from the rain of heaven,
Ezekiel 20:6
on that day I swore to them, to bring them out from the land of Egypt into a land that I had selected for them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands.

General references

Genesis 27:38
Esau said to his father, “Do you have only one blessing, my father? Bless me, even me also, O my father.” So Esau lifted his voice and wept.
Isaiah 24:7
The new wine mourns,
The vine decays,
All the merry-hearted sigh.