Lamentations 2:10
The elders of the Daughter of Zion sit on the ground in silence. They have thrown dust on their heads and put on sackcloth. The young women of Jerusalem have bowed their heads to the ground.
The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, and keep silence: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.
The elders of the daughter of Zion sit on the ground. They keep silence. They have cast up dust on their heads. They have clothed themselves with sackcloth. The virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.
The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, they keep silence; They have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: The virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- elders
- Lamentations 4:5, 16; Lamentations 5:12, 14; Job 2:13; Isaiah 3:26; Isaiah 47:1, 5
- sit
- Sitting on the ground was a posture of mourning and deep distress. Hence the coin struck by Vespasian, on the capture of Jerusalem, has on the obverse side a palm tree, the emblem of Judea, and under it a woman, the emblem of Jerusalem, sitting down, with her elbow on her knee, and her head supported by her hand, with the legend {Judæa capta.}
- Lamentations 1:1
- and keep
- Lamentations 3:28; Jeremiah 8:14; Amos 5:13; Amos 8:3
- cast up
- Joshua 7:6; 2 Samuel 13:19; Job 2:12; Revelation 18:19
- they have girded
- Isaiah 15:3; Isaiah 36:22; Ezekiel 7:18; Ezekiel 27:31; Joel 1:8
- the virgins
- Lamentations 1:4; Amos 8:13