Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how is she become as a widow! she that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary!
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Bible References
How doth
Isaiah 14:12
How you have fallen from heaven, morning star, son of the dawn. How you are cut down to the ground, who laid the nations low.
Jeremiah 50:23
How is the hammer of the whole earth cut apart and broken. How is Babylon become a desolation among the nations.
Zephaniah 2:15
This is the joyous city that lived carelessly, that said in her heart, "I am, and there is none besides me." How she has become a desolation, a place for animals to lie down in. Everyone who passes by her will hiss, and shake their fists.
Revelation 18:16
saying, 'Woe, woe, the great city, she who was dressed in fine linen, purple, and scarlet, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls.
Sit
Lamentations 2:10
The elders of the daughter of Zion sit on the ground in silence. They have cast up dust on their heads; they have clothed themselves with sackcloth. The virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.
Isaiah 3:26
Her gates shall lament and mourn; and she shall be desolate and sit on the ground.
Isaiah 50:5
The Lord GOD has opened my ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away backward.
Isaiah 52:2
Shake yourself from the dust. Arise, sit up, Jerusalem. Release yourself from the bonds of your neck, captive daughter of Zion.
Jeremiah 9:11
"I will make Jerusalem heaps, a dwelling place of jackals; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant."
Ezekiel 26:16
Then all the princes of the sea shall come down from their thrones, and lay aside their robes, and strip off their embroidered garments: they shall clothe themselves with trembling; they shall sit on the ground, and shall tremble every moment, and be astonished at you.
Full
Psalm 122:4
where the tribes go up, even the tribes of the LORD, according to an ordinance for Israel, to give thanks to the name of the LORD.
Isaiah 22:2
You that are full of shouting, a tumultuous city, a joyous town; your slain are not slain with the sword, neither are they dead in battle.
Zechariah 8:4
Thus says the LORD of hosts: "Old men and old women will again dwell in the streets of Jerusalem, every man with his staff in his hand for very age.
As a
Isaiah 47:8
"Now therefore hear this, you who are given to pleasures, who sit securely, who say in your heart, 'I am, and there is no other besides me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children:'
Isaiah 54:4
"Do not be afraid; for you shall not be ashamed: neither be confounded; for you shall not be disappointed: for you shall forget the shame of your youth; and the reproach of your widowhood you shall remember no more.
Revelation 18:7
However much she glorified herself, and grew wanton, so much give her of torment and mourning. For she says in her heart, 'I sit a queen, and am no widow, and will in no way see mourning.'
Great
1 Kings 4:21
Solomon ruled over all the kingdoms from the River to the land of the Philistines, and to the border of Egypt: they brought tribute, and served Solomon all the days of his life.
2 Chronicles 9:26
He ruled over all the kings from the River even to the land of the Philistines, and to the border of Egypt.
Ezra 4:20
There have been mighty kings also over Jerusalem, who have ruled over all the country beyond the River; and tribute, custom, and toll, was paid to them.
General references
Isaiah 24:12
The city is left in desolation, and the gate is struck with destruction.
Isaiah 64:10
Your holy cities have become like a wilderness, Zion has become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.