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 are worn out from crying, my insides are churning, My emotions pour out in grief because my people are destroyed Children and infants faint in the streets of the city.
Lamentations 4:3
Even wild animals nurse, suckling their young; but the women of my people are cruel, like ostriches in the wilderness.

Pleasant fields

Deuteronomy 8:7
because the LORD your God is bringing you to a good land a land with rivers and deep springs flowing to the valleys and hills.
Deuteronomy 11:11
Instead, the land that you are crossing over to inherit is a land of hills and valleys that drinks water supplied by rain from heaven,
Ezekiel 20:6
That day I promised to bring them out of the land of Egypt to the land that I had explored for them a land flowing with milk and honey. It's the most beautiful of all lands.

General references

Genesis 27:38
Then Esau implored his father, "Don't you have even one blessing for me, my father? Bless me, even me too, my father!" Then Esau lifted his voice and wept bitterly.
Isaiah 24:7
The new wine evaporates; the vine and the oil dry up; all the merrymakers groan.

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