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

so that the generation to come of your sons 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 Jehovah has laid on it)

then I will cut off Israel from the face of the land which I have given them. And this house which I have made holy for My name I will cast out of My sight. And Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all people.

And this house, which is high, shall be a wonder to everyone who passes by it, so that they shall shudder and say, Why has Jehovah done this to this land and to this house?

to make their land desolate and a hissing forever. Everyone who passes by will be amazed, and will wag his head.

Clap

Jerusalem has grievously sinned, therefore she has been removed. All knowing her despise her because they saw her nakedness; yea, she sighs and turns backward.

For it will hurl at him, and will not spare; he will surely flee out of its hand.

For so says the Lord Jehovah: Because you have clapped your hands and stamped the foot, and rejoiced in heart with all your spite against the land of Israel;

There is no healing of your fracture; your wound is grievous; all who hear the news of you shall clap the hands over you; for upon whom has your wickedness not passed continually?

Wag

This is the word that Jehovah has spoken concerning him: The virgin, the daughter of Zion, has despised you and laughed you to scorn. The daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at you.

All who see Me mock me; they shoot out the lip; they shake the head, saying,

You make us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head among the people.

this is the word which Jehovah has spoken concerning him: The virgin, the daughter of Zion, has despised you and laughed you to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head behind you.

to make their land desolate and a hissing forever. Everyone who passes by will be amazed, and will wag his head.

And those who passed by blasphemed Him, shaking their heads,

And those who passed by blasphemed Him, wagging their heads and saying, Aha! You razing the temple and building it in three days,

Is this

And He violated His booth like a garden, and destroyed His meeting places. Jehovah caused the meeting places and sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion, and He despised the king and the priest in the fury of His anger.

Beautiful on high, 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 shone.

The house of our holiness and our beauty, where our fathers praised You, has become a burning of fire; and all our pleasant things are laid waste.

General references

even all nations shall say, Why has Jehovah done this to this land? For what is the heat of this great anger?

And I will make this city a waste and a hissing. Everyone who passes by shall be amazed and shall hiss because of all its plagues.

And many nations shall pass by this city, and they shall say each one to his neighbor, Why has Jehovah done this to this great city?