Lamentations 2:10

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

Elders

Isaiah 47:1

And keep

Cast up

They have girded

Joel 1:8

The virgins

Lamentations 1:4

Amos 8:13

General references

Lamentations 3:28

Lamentations 5:12

Amos 8:13

Bible References

Elders

Those who enjoyed delicacies lie desolate in the streets. Those who were reared wearing purple scavenge in piles of trash.

Princes they have hung by their hands; elders they have disrespected.

and sat with Job on the ground for a full week without saying a word, since they could see the great extent of his anguish.

and her gates lament and mourn. Ravaged, she will sit on the ground."

"Come down and sit in the dust, Virgin Daughter of Babylon. Sit on the ground without a chair, Daughter of the Chaldeans! For no longer will they call you tender and attractive.

And keep

He is to sit apart and remain silent, because the LORD has laid it upon him.

Why are we sitting here? Join together! Let's go to the fortified cities and perish there! For the LORD our God has condemned us to perish and given us poisoned water to drink, because we have sinned against him.

therefore the prudent person remains silent at such a time, for the time is evil.

At that time," declares the Lord GOD, "the temple songs will be wailing. Many bodies will accumulate everywhere.

Cast up

At this, Joshua tore his clothes, fell down to the ground on his face before the ark of the LORD until evening he and the leaders of Israel and they covered their heads with dust.

Tamar rubbed her head with ashes, tore her tunic that she was wearing, put her hand to her head, and ran off, crying aloud as she went away.

Observing him from a distance, at first they didn't even recognize him, so they raised their voices and burst into tears. They each ripped their robes, threw ashes into the air on their heads,

Then they threw dust on their heads and shouted while crying and mourning: "How terrible, how terrible it is for the great city, where all who had ships at sea became rich from her wealth, because it has been destroyed in a single hour!

They have girded

In its streets they wear sackcloth; on its rooftops and in its squares everyone wails and falls down weeping.

Then Hilkiah's son Eliakim, who was in charge of the palace, Shebna the secretary, and Asaph's son Joah, the recorder, approached Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and let him know what the field commander had said.

"They'll clothe themselves with sackcloth, terror will overcome them, shame will cover their faces, and baldness will spread over their entire heads.

They'll shave their heads bald because of you. They'll dress themselves in sackcloth and weep for you with deep bitterness of heart, with the most pitiful of mourning.

"Grieve like a virgin, who, dressed in her mourner's clothes, cries out in memory of the man she was going to marry.

The virgins

The roads that lead to Zion are in mourning, because no one travels to the festivals. All her gates are desolate; her priests are moaning. Her young women are grieving, and she is bitter.

At that time, the beautiful virgins will faint, as will the strong young men from thirst.

General references

He is to sit apart and remain silent, because the LORD has laid it upon him.

Princes they have hung by their hands; elders they have disrespected.

At that time, the beautiful virgins will faint, as will the strong young men from thirst.