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

(He) Those who once feasted on delicacies are now starving to death in the streets. Those who grew up wearing expensive clothes are now dying amid garbage.

Princes were hung by their hands; elders were mistreated.

Then they sat down with him on the ground for seven days and seven nights, yet no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his pain was very great.

Her gates will mourn and lament; deprived of her people, she will sit on the ground.

"Fall down! Sit in the dirt, O virgin daughter Babylon! Sit on the ground, not on a throne, O daughter of the Babylonians! Indeed, you will no longer be called delicate and pampered.

And keep

(Yod) Let a person sit alone in silence, when the Lord is disciplining him.

The people say, "Why are we just sitting here? Let us gather together inside the fortified cities. Let us at least die there fighting, since the Lord our God has condemned us to die. He has condemned us to drink the poison waters of judgment because we have sinned against him.

For this reason whoever is smart keeps quiet in such a time, for it is an evil time.

The women singing in the temple will wail in that day." The sovereign Lord is speaking. "There will be many corpses littered everywhere! Be quiet!"

Cast up

Joshua tore his clothes; he and the leaders of Israel lay face down on the ground before the ark of the Lord until evening and threw dirt on their heads.

Then Tamar put ashes on her head and tore the long robe she was wearing. She put her hands on her head and went on her way, wailing as she went.

But when they gazed intently from a distance but did not recognize him, they began to weep loudly. Each of them tore his robes, and they threw dust into the air over their heads.

And they threw dust on their heads and were shouting with weeping and mourning, "Woe, Woe, O great city -- in which all those who had ships on the sea got rich from her wealth -- because in a single hour she has been destroyed!"

They have girded

In their streets they wear sackcloth; on their roofs and in their town squares all of them wail, they fall down weeping.

Eliakim son of Hilkiah, the palace supervisor, accompanied by Shebna the scribe and Joah son of Asaph, the secretary, went to Hezekiah with their clothes torn in grief and reported to him what the chief adviser had said.

They will wear sackcloth, terror will cover them; shame will be on all their faces, and all of their heads will be shaved bald.

they will tear out their hair because of you and put on sackcloth, and they will weep bitterly over you with intense mourning.

Wail like a young virgin clothed in sackcloth, lamenting the death of her husband-to-be.

The virgins

(Dalet) The roads to Zion mourn because no one travels to the festivals. All her city gates are deserted; her priests groan. Her virgins grieve; she is in bitter anguish!

In that day your beautiful young women and your young men will faint from thirst.

General references

(Yod) Let a person sit alone in silence, when the Lord is disciplining him.

Princes were hung by their hands; elders were mistreated.

In that day your beautiful young women and your young men will faint from thirst.