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Lamentations » Examples of » For the miseries of israel
O daughter of My people, Gird on sackcloth, and roll thyself in ashes, The mourning of an only one make for thee, A lamentation most bitter, For suddenly come doth the spoiler against us.
Cut off thy crown, and cast it away, And lift up on high places lamentation, For Jehovah hath rejected, And He leaveth the generation of His wrath.
For this, gird on sackcloth, lament and howl, For the fierce anger of Jehovah hath not turned back from us.
Wail, as a virgin girdeth with sackcloth, For the husband of her youth.
Hear this word that I am bearing to you, A lamentation, O house of Israel:
In that day doth one take up for you a simile, And he hath wailed a wailing of woe, He hath said, We have been utterly spoiled, The portion of my people He doth change, How doth He move toward me! To the backslider our fields He apportioneth.
Marriage » The jews » Contracted when young
Who is forsaking the guide of her youth, And the covenant of her God hath forgotten.
Wail, as a virgin girdeth with sackcloth, For the husband of her youth.
Sackcloth » A symbol of mourning
Howl, Heshbon, for spoiled is Ai, Cry, daughters of Rabbah, gird on sackcloth, Lament, and go to and fro by the hedges, For Malcam into captivity doth go, His priests and his princes together.
Sit on the earth -- keep silent do the elders of the daughter of Zion, They have caused dust to go up on their head, They have girded on sackcloth, Put down to the earth their head have the virgins of Jerusalem.
and I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes.
And they have girded on sackcloth, And covered them hath trembling, And unto all faces is shame, And on all their heads -- baldness.
O daughter of My people, Gird on sackcloth, and roll thyself in ashes, The mourning of an only one make for thee, A lamentation most bitter, For suddenly come doth the spoiler against us.
For this, gird on sackcloth, lament and howl, For the fierce anger of Jehovah hath not turned back from us.
Wail, as a virgin girdeth with sackcloth, For the husband of her youth.
And his servants say unto him, 'Lo, we pray thee, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel -- that they are kind kings; let us put, we pray thee, sackcloth on our loins, and ropes on our heads, and we go out unto the king of Israel; it may be he doth keep thee alive.' And they gird sackcloth on their loins, and ropes are on their heads, and they come in unto the king of Israel, and say, 'Thy servant Ben-Hadad hath said, Let me live, I pray thee;' and he saith, 'Is he yet alive? he is my brother.'
In its out-places they girded on sackcloth, On its pinnacles, and in its broad places, Every one howleth -- going down with weeping.