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
כ KafMy eyes are worn out from weeping;
I am churning within.
My heart is poured out in grief
because of the destruction of my dear people,
because children and infants faint
in the streets of the city.
Lamentations 4:3
ג GimelEven jackals offer their breasts
to nurse their young,
but my dear people have 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 with streams of water, springs, and deep water sources, flowing in both valleys and hills;
Deuteronomy 11:11
But the land you are entering to possess is a land of mountains and valleys, watered by rain from the sky.
Ezekiel 20:6
On that day I swore to them that I would bring them out of the land of Egypt into a land I had searched out for them, a land flowing with milk and honey, the most beautiful of all lands.

General references

Genesis 27:38
Esau said to his father, “Do you only have one blessing, my father? Bless me too, my father!” And Esau wept loudly.
Isaiah 24:7
The new wine mourns;
the vine withers.
All the carousers now groan.

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