Lamentations 2:15

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

All that pass by clap their hands at thee; they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city that men call The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?

That pass

Clap

Wag

Mark 15:29

Is this

General references

Deuteronomy 29:24

Jeremiah 19:8

Jeremiah 22:8

Bible References

That pass

“Future generations of your children who follow you and the foreigner who comes from a distant country will see the plagues of the land and the sicknesses the Lord has inflicted on it.

I will cut off Israel from the land I gave them, and I will reject the temple I have sanctified for My name. Israel will become an object of scorn and ridicule among all the peoples.

As for this temple, which was exalted, everyone who passes by will be appalled and will say: Why did the Lord do this to this land and this temple?

They have made their land a horror,
a perpetual object of scorn;

everyone who passes by it will be horrified
and shake his head.

Clap

ח KhetJerusalem has sinned grievously;
therefore, she has become an object of scorn.
All who honored her now despise her,
for they have seen her nakedness.
She herself groans and turns away.

It blasts at him without mercy,
while he flees desperately from its grasp.

For this is what the Lord God says: “Because you clapped your hands, stamped your feet, and rejoiced over the land of Israel with wholehearted contempt,

There is no remedy for your injury;
your wound is severe.
All who hear the news about you
will clap their hands because of you,
for who has not experienced
your constant cruelty?

Wag

This is the word the Lord has spoken against him:

Virgin Daughter Zion
despises you and scorns you:
Daughter Jerusalem
shakes her head behind your back.

Everyone who sees me mocks me;
they sneer and shake their heads:

You make us a joke among the nations,
a laughingstock among the peoples.

this is the word the Lord has spoken against him:

Virgin Daughter Zion
despises you and scorns you:
Daughter Jerusalem shakes her head
behind your back.

They have made their land a horror,
a perpetual object of scorn;

everyone who passes by it will be horrified
and shake his head.

Those who passed by were yelling insults at Him, shaking their heads

Those who passed by were yelling insults at Him, shaking their heads, and saying, “Ha! The One who would demolish the sanctuary and build it in three days,

Is this

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.

rising splendidly,
is the joy of the whole earth.
Mount Zion on the slopes of the north
is the city of the great King.

From Zion, the perfection of beauty,
God appears in radiance.

Our holy and beautiful temple,
where our fathers praised You,
has been burned with fire,
and all that was dear to us lies in ruins.

General references

All the nations will ask, ‘Why has the Lord done this to this land? Why this great outburst of anger?’

I will make this city desolate, an object of scorn. Everyone who passes by it will be horrified and scoff because of all its wounds.

“Many nations will pass by this city and ask one another, ‘Why did the Lord do such a thing to this great city?’