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
He has broken down {his dwelling} place like the garden; he has ruined his appointed feasts; Yahweh has made [them] forget in Zion {festival} and Sabbath, and he has despised in his anger king and priest.
Lamentations 5:13
Young men must carry a hand-mill and boys stumble under the wood.
Isaiah 24:4
The earth dries up, it withers; [the] world languishes, it withers. The elevated of the people of the earth languish,
Jeremiah 14:2
"Judah mourns, and her gates languish, they are in mourning on the ground, and the cry of lament of Jerusalem goes up.
Micah 3:12
Therefore on account of you Zion will be plowed [as] a field, and Jerusalem will be a heap of rubble, and {the temple mount} as a high place [in] a forest.
All her gates
Lamentations 2:9
Her gates have sunk into the earth; he has ruined and broken her bars, her kings and its princes [are] among the nations; there is no more law. Also, her prophets have not found a revelation from Yahweh.
Jeremiah 9:11
And I will make Jerusalem as heaps [of ruins], a lair of jackals, and the towns of Judah I will make a desolation, {without inhabitants}.
Jeremiah 10:22
Listen, news: Look, [it is] coming, a great roar from [the] land of [the] north, to make the cities of Judah a desolation, a lair of jackals.
Jeremiah 33:10
"Thus says Yahweh: 'Again will be heard in this place, [of] which you [are] saying, "It [is] a waste, {without} people and {without} animals," in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem that are desolate, {without} people and {without} inhabitants and {without} animals,
Her priests
Lamentations 1:11
All her people groan, they are searching for bread. They give their treasures for food, to bring back life. See, O Yahweh, and look, [how] I am despised.
Lamentations 2:10
They sit on the ground, the elders of the daughter of Zion are silent. They cast dust on their head, they have put on sackcloth; the young women of Jerusalem have bowed their head down to the ground.
Isaiah 32:9
Women [who are] at ease, rise up; hear my voice! Carefree daughters, listen [to] my word!
Joel 1:8
Lament like a virgin girded in sackcloth for the husband of her youth.
General references
Isaiah 24:12
Desolation is left in the city; [the] gate is crushed [into] a state of ruin.
Isaiah 64:10
{Your holy cities} have become a wilderness; Zion has become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.