Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitterness.
All her gates
Her priests
General references
Bible References
Ways
Lamentations 2:6
ו VavHe has done violence to His temple
as if it were a garden booth,
destroying His place of meeting.
The Lord has abolished
appointed festivals and Sabbaths in Zion.
He has despised king and priest
in His fierce anger.
as if it were a garden booth,
destroying His place of meeting.
The Lord has abolished
appointed festivals and Sabbaths in Zion.
He has despised king and priest
in His fierce anger.
Lamentations 5:13 Young men labor at millstones;
boys stumble under loads of wood.
boys stumble under loads of wood.
Isaiah 24:4 The earth mourns and withers;
the world wastes away and withers;
the exalted people of the earth waste away.
the world wastes away and withers;
the exalted people of the earth waste away.
Jeremiah 14:2 Judah mourns;
her gates languish.
Her people are on the ground in mourning;
Jerusalem’s cry rises up.
her gates languish.
Her people are on the ground in mourning;
Jerusalem’s cry rises up.
Micah 3:12 Therefore, because of you,
Zion will be plowed like a field,
Jerusalem will become ruins,
and the hill of the temple mount
will be a thicket.
Zion will be plowed like a field,
Jerusalem will become ruins,
and the hill of the temple mount
will be a thicket.
All her gates
Lamentations 2:9
ט TetZion’s gates have fallen to the ground;
He has destroyed and shattered the bars on her gates.
Her king and her leaders live among the nations,
instruction is no more,
and even her prophets receive
no vision from the Lord.
He has destroyed and shattered the bars on her gates.
Her king and her leaders live among the nations,
instruction
and even her prophets receive
no vision from the Lord.
Jeremiah 9:11 I will make Jerusalem a heap of rubble,
a jackals’ den.
I will make the cities of Judah a desolation,
an uninhabited place.
a jackals’ den.
I will make the cities of Judah a desolation,
an uninhabited place.
Jeremiah 10:22 Listen! A noise—it is coming—
a great commotion from the land to the north.
The cities of Judah will be made desolate,
a jackals’ den.
a great commotion
The cities of Judah will be made desolate,
a jackals’ den.
Jeremiah 33:10
“This is what the Lord says: In this place, which you say is a ruin, without man or beast—that is, in Judah’s cities and Jerusalem’s streets that are a desolation without man, without inhabitant, and without beast—there will be heard again
Her priests
Lamentations 1:11
כ KafAll her people groan
while they search for bread.
They have traded their precious belongings for food
in order to stay alive.
Lord, look and see
how I have become despised.
while they search for bread.
They have traded their precious belongings for food
in order to stay alive.
Lord, look and see
how I have become despised.
Lamentations 2:10
י YodThe elders of Daughter Zion
sit on the ground in silence.
They have thrown dust on their heads
and put on sackcloth.
The young women of Jerusalem
have bowed their heads to the ground.
sit on the ground in silence.
They have thrown dust on their heads
and put on sackcloth.
The young women of Jerusalem
have bowed their heads to the ground.
Isaiah 32:9 Stand up, you complacent women;
listen to me.
Pay attention to what I say,
you overconfident daughters.
listen to me.
Pay attention to what I say,
you overconfident daughters.
Joel 1:8 Grieve like a young woman dressed in sackcloth,
mourning for the husband of her youth.
mourning for the husband of her youth.
General references
Isaiah 24:12 Only desolation remains in the city;
its gate has collapsed in ruins.
its gate has collapsed in ruins.
Isaiah 64:10 Your holy cities have become a wilderness;
Zion has become a wilderness,
Jerusalem a desolation.
Zion has become a wilderness,
Jerusalem a desolation.