Revelation 18:19

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Summary

And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas, that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.

They cast

Weeping

Revelation 18:10

General references

Exodus 11:6

Jeremiah 49:25

Jeremiah 51:54

Bible References

They cast

Then Joshua, in great grief, went down on the earth before the ark of the Lord till the evening, and all the chiefs of Israel with him, and they put dust on their heads.

And a man of Benjamin went running from the fight and came to Shiloh the same day with his clothing out of order and earth on his head.

And Tamar, in her grief, put dust on her head; and she put her hand on her head and went away crying loudly.

Now on the twenty-fourth day of this month the children of Israel came together, taking no food and putting haircloth and dust on their bodies.

And lifting up their eyes when they were still far off, it did not seem that the man they saw was Job because of the change in him. And they gave way to bitter weeping, with signs of grief, and put dust on their heads.

And their voices will be sounding over you, and crying bitterly they will put dust on their heads, rolling themselves in the dust:

Weeping

Watching from far away, for fear of her punishment, saying, Sorrow, sorrow for Babylon, the great town, the strong town! for in one hour you have been judged.

General references

And there will be a great cry through all the land of Egypt, such as never has been or will be again.

How has the town of praise been wasted, the place of joy!

There is the sound of a cry from Babylon, and of a great destruction from the land of the Chaldaeans: