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From the Blue Letter Bible
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
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elders
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Lam 4:5,16; Lam 5:12,14; Job 2:13; Isa 3:26; Isa 47:1,5 |
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sit
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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. Lam 1:1 |
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and keep
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Lam 3:28; Jer 8:14; Amo 5:13; Amo 8:3 |
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cast up
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Jos 7:6; 2Sa 13:19; Job 2:12; Rev 18:19 |
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they have girded
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Isa 15:3; Isa 36:22; Eze 7:18; Eze 27:31; Joe 1:8 |
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the virgins
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Lam 1:4; Amo 8:13 |
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Lam 4:5 |
They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills. |
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Lam 4:16 |
The anger of the LORD hath divided them; he will no more regard them: they respected not the persons of the priests, they favoured not the elders. |
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Lam 5:12 |
Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured. |
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Lam 5:14 |
The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick. |
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Job 2:13 |
So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word unto him: for they saw that [his] grief was very great. |
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Isa 3:26 |
And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she [being] desolate shall sit upon the ground. |
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Isa 47:1 |
Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, sit on the ground: [there is] no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate. |
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Isa 47:5 |
Sit thou silent, and get thee into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called, The lady of kingdoms. |
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Lam 1:1 |
How doth the city sit solitary, [that was] full of people! [how] is she become as a widow! she [that was] great among the nations, [and] princess among the provinces, [how] is she become tributary! |
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Lam 3:28 |
He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne [it] upon him. |
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Jer 8:14 |
Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the defenced cities, and let us be silent there: for the LORD our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD. |
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Amo 5:13 |
Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it [is] an evil time. |
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Amo 8:3 |
And the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day, saith the Lord GOD: [there shall be] many dead bodies in every place; they shall cast [them] forth with silence. |
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Jos 7:6 |
And Joshua rent his clothes, and fell to the earth upon his face before the ark of the LORD until the eventide, he and the elders of Israel, and put dust upon their heads. |
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2Sa 13:19 |
And Tamar put ashes on her head, and rent her garment of divers colours that [was] on her, and laid her hand on her head, and went on crying. |
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Job 2:12 |
And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew him not, they lifted up their voice, and wept; and they rent every one his mantle, and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven. |
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Rev 18:19 |
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. |
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Isa 15:3 |
In their streets they shall gird themselves with sackcloth: on the tops of their houses, and in their streets, every one shall howl, weeping abundantly. |
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Isa 36:22 |
Then came Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, that [was] over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder, to Hezekiah with [their] clothes rent, and told him the words of Rabshakeh. |
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Eze 7:18 |
They shall also gird [themselves] with sackcloth, and horror shall cover them; and shame [shall be] upon all faces, and baldness upon all their heads. |
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Eze 27:31 |
And they shall make themselves utterly bald for thee, and gird them with sackcloth, and they shall weep for thee with bitterness of heart [and] bitter wailing. |
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Joe 1:8 |
Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth. |
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Lam 1:4 |
The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she [is] in bitterness. |
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Amo 8:13 |
In that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst. |
Cite This Page: (explanation of citations)
Scott, Thomas. "Lamentations 2:10," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
<http://www.blueletterbible.org/tsk_b/Lam/2/10.html>.
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