Isaiah 3:26 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁶ And her gates shall lament and mourn; desolate, she shall sit upon the ground.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁶ And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she being desolate shall sit upon the ground.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁶ And [Jerusalem's] gates shall lament and mourn [as those who wail for the dead]; and she, being ruined and desolate, shall sit upon the ground.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁶ And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she shall be desolate and sit upon the ground.

Common English Bible

²⁶ Her gates will lament and mourn; desolate, she will sit on the ground.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁶ And her gates will grieve and mourn. And she will sit on the ground, desolate.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁶ And her gates shall lament and mourn: and she shall sit desolate on the ground.

Isaiah 3:26 Cross References

Job 2:13

They sat with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his suffering was very great.

Job 2:8

Job took a potsherd with which to scrape himself and sat among the ashes.

Isaiah 14:31

Wail, O gate; cry, O city; melt in fear, O Philistia, all of you! For smoke comes out of the north, and there is no straggler in its ranks.

Isaiah 29:2

Yet I will oppress Ariel, and there shall be moaning and lamentation, and you shall be to me like an Ariel.

Isaiah 32:14

For the palace will be forsaken, the populous city deserted; the hill and the watchtower will become dens forever, the joy of wild asses, a pasture for flocks;

Isaiah 33:9

The land mourns and languishes; Lebanon is confounded and withers away; Sharon is like a desert, and Bashan and Carmel shake off their leaves.

Isaiah 47:1

Come down and sit in the dust, virgin daughter Babylon! Sit on the ground without a throne, daughter Chaldea! For you shall no more be called tender and delicate.

Isaiah 6:11

Then I said, “How long, O Lord?” And he said, “Until cities lie waste without inhabitant, and houses without people, and the land is utterly desolate;

Jeremiah 14:2

Judah mourns, and her gates languish; they lie in gloom on the ground, and the cry of Jerusalem goes up.

Jeremiah 15:8

Their widows became more numerous than the sand of the seas; I have brought against the mothers of youths a destroyer at noonday; I have made anguish and terror fall upon her suddenly.

Lamentations 1:1

How lonely sits the city that once was full of people! How like a widow she has become, she that was great among the nations! She that was a princess among the provinces has become subject to forced labor.

Lamentations 1:4

The roads to Zion mourn, for no one comes to the festivals; all her gates are desolate; her priests groan; her young girls grieve, and her lot is bitter.

Lamentations 2:10

The elders of daughter Zion sit on the ground in silence; they have thrown dust on their heads; they put on sackcloth; the young women of Jerusalem have bowed their heads to the ground.

Lamentations 2:8

The Lord determined to lay in ruins the wall of daughter Zion; he stretched the line; he did not withhold his hand from destroying; he caused rampart and wall to lament; they languish together.

Ezekiel 12:20

The inhabited cities shall be laid waste, and the land shall become a desolation, and you shall know that I am the Lord.”

Ezekiel 26:16

Then all the princes of the sea shall step down from their thrones; they shall remove their robes and strip off their embroidered garments. They shall clothe themselves with trembling and shall sit on the ground; they shall tremble every moment and be appalled at you.

Micah 1:9

For her wound is incurable. It has come to Judah; it has reached to the gate of my people, to Jerusalem.

Matthew 11:17

‘We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we wailed, and you did not mourn.’

Luke 19:44

They will crush you to the ground, you and your children within you, and they will not leave within you one stone upon another, because you did not recognize the time of your visitation from God.”