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
And he has violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were a garden: he has destroyed his places of the assembly: the LORD has caused the solemn feasts and sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion, and has despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest.
Lamentations 5:13
They took the young men to grind, and the children stagger under loads of wood.
Isaiah 24:4
The earth mourns and fades away, the world languishes and fades away, the haughty people of the earth do languish.
Jeremiah 14:2
Judah mourns, and its gates languish; they mourn for the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem has gone up.
Micah 3:12
Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps of ruins, and the mountain of the house like the high places of the forest.
All her gates
Lamentations 2:9
Her gates are sunk into the ground; he has destroyed and broken her bars: her king and her princes are among the nations: the law is no more; her prophets also find no vision from the LORD.
Jeremiah 9:11
And I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins, and a den of jackals; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.
Jeremiah 10:22
Behold, the noise of the report has come, and a great commotion out of the north country, to make the cities of Judah desolate, and a den of jackals.
Jeremiah 33:10
Thus says the LORD; Again there shall be heard in this place, which you say shall be desolate without man and without beast, even in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, that are desolate, without man, and without inhabitant, and without beast,
Her priests
Lamentations 1:11
All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their treasures for food to relieve the soul: see, O LORD, and consider; for I have become despised.
Lamentations 2:10
The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, and keep silence: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.
Isaiah 32:9
Rise up, you women that are at ease; hear my voice, you complacent daughters; give ear unto my speech.
Joel 1:8
Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.
General references
Isaiah 24:12
In the city is left desolation, and the gate is stricken with destruction.
Isaiah 64:10
Your holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.