Lamentations 2:15

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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

So that the generation to come of your children that shall rise up after you, and the stranger that shall come from a far land shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses which the LORD has laid upon it,

I will cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them, and this house, which I have sanctified unto my name, I will cast out of my sight, and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all peoples;

And this house, which is high, shall be an astonishment to every one that passes by it, so that they shall say, Why has the LORD done thus unto this land and unto this house?

to make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing; every one that passes thereby shall be astonished and wag his head.

Clap

Cheth Jerusalem has grievously sinned; therefore she is removed; all that honoured her despise her because they have seen her nakedness; yea, she sighs and is turned backward.

For God shall cast down on him and not spare; he would attempt to flee out of his hand.

For thus hath the Lord GOD said; Because thou hast clapped thine hands and stamped with the feet and rejoiced in thy soul with all thy despite upon the land of Israel,

There is no cure for thy destruction; thy wound is grievous; all that hear thy story shall clap their hands over thee; for upon whom has not thy wickedness passed continually?

Wag

This is the word that the LORD has spoken concerning him: Has he despised thee? Has he laughed thee to scorn, O virgin daughter of Zion? He has moved his head behind thy back, O daughter of Jerusalem.

All those that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,

Thou makest us a byword among the Gentiles, a shaking of the head among the people.

This is the word which the LORD has spoken concerning him, Has he despised thee? Has he laughed thee to scorn O virgin daughter of Zion? Has he shaken his head behind thy back O daughter of Jerusalem?

to make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing; every one that passes thereby shall be astonished and wag his head.

And they that passed by reviled him, wagging their heads

And those that passed by railed on him, wagging their heads and saying, Ah, thou that would destroy the temple of God and build it in three days,

Is this

Vau And he has violently taken away his tabernacle as if it were of a garden; he has destroyed his congregation; the LORD has caused the solemnities and sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion and has rejected in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest.

Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is Mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King.

Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God has shined forth.

Our house of our Sanctuary and of our glory, where our fathers praised thee, was burned up with fire; and all our precious things were destroyed.

General references

even all Gentiles shall say, Why has the LORD done thus unto this land? What means the heat of this great anger?

And I will make this city desolate and a hissing; every one that passes thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all its plagues.

And many Gentiles shall pass by this city, and each man shall say to his neighbour, Why has the LORD done thus unto this great city?