Lamentations 2:15 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁵ All who pass along the way clap their hands at you; they hiss and wag their heads at daughter Jerusalem: “Is this the city that was called the perfection of beauty, the joy of all the earth?”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁵ All that pass by clap Their hands at thee; They hiss and wag their head At the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city that men call The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁵ All who pass by clap their hands at you; they hiss and wag their heads at the Daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city which was called the perfection of beauty, the joy of all the earth?

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁵ All that pass by clap their hands at thee; They hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city that men called The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?

Common English Bible

¹⁵ All who pass by on the road clap their hands about you; they whistle, shaking their heads at Daughter Jerusalem: “Could this be the city called Perfect Beauty, the Joy of All the Earth?”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁵ SAMECH. All those who passed by the way have clapped their hands over you. They have hissed and shook their heads over the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, "Is this the city of perfect dignity, the joy of all the earth?"

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁵ Samech. All they that passed by the way have clapped their hands at thee: they have hissed and wagged their heads at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying: Is this the city of perfect beauty, the joy of all the earth?

Lamentations 2:15 Cross References

2 Kings 19:21

This is the word that the Lord has spoken concerning him: She despises you; she scorns you— virgin daughter Zion; she tosses her head—behind your back, daughter Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 7:21

And regarding this house, now exalted, everyone passing by will be astonished and say, ‘Why has the Lord done such a thing to this land and to this house?’

Psalm 109:25

I am an object of scorn to my accusers; when they see me, they shake their heads.

Psalm 22:7

All who see me mock me; they sneer at me; they shake their heads;

Psalm 48:2

beautiful in elevation, is the joy of all the earth, Mount Zion, in the far north, the city of the great King.

Psalm 48:3

Within its citadels God has shown himself a sure defense.

Psalm 50:2

Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines forth.

Psalm 64:8

Because of their tongue he will bring them to ruin; all who see them will shake with horror.

Isaiah 28:21

For the Lord will rise up as on Mount Perazim; he will rage as in the valley of Gibeon to do his deed—strange is his deed!— and to work his work—alien is his work!

Isaiah 37:22

this is the word that the Lord has spoken concerning him: She despises you; she scorns you— virgin daughter Zion; she tosses her head—behind your back, daughter Jerusalem.

Isaiah 64:11

Our holy and beautiful house, where our ancestors praised you, has been burned by fire, and all our pleasant places have become ruins.

Jeremiah 18:16

making their land a horror, a thing to be hissed at forever. All who pass by it are horrified and shake their heads.

Jeremiah 19:8

And I will make this city a horror, a thing to be hissed at; everyone who passes by it will be horrified and will hiss because of all its disasters.

Jeremiah 25:18

Jerusalem and the towns of Judah, its kings and officials, to make them a desolation and a waste, an object of hissing and of cursing, as they are today;

Jeremiah 25:9

I am going to send for all the tribes of the north, says the Lord, even for King Nebuchadrezzar of Babylon, my servant, and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants and against all these nations around; I will utterly destroy them and make them an object of horror and of hissing and an everlasting disgrace.

Jeremiah 26:6

then I will make this house like Shiloh, and I will make this city a curse for all the nations of the earth.

Jeremiah 29:18

I will pursue them with the sword, with famine, and with pestilence and will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be an object of cursing and horror and hissing and a derision among all the nations where I have driven them,

Jeremiah 48:27

Israel was a laughingstock for you, though he was not caught among thieves, but whenever you spoke of him you shook your head!

Jeremiah 51:37

and Babylon shall become a heap of ruins, a den of jackals, an object of horror and of hissing, without inhabitant.

Lamentations 1:21

They heard how I was groaning, with no one to comfort me. All my enemies heard of my trouble; they are glad that you have done it. Bring on the day that you have announced, and let them be as I am.

Lamentations 1:8

Jerusalem sinned grievously, so she has become a filthy thing; all who honored her despise her, for they have seen her nakedness; she herself groans and turns her face away.

Lamentations 2:16

All your enemies open their mouths against you; they hiss, they gnash their teeth, they cry: “We have devoured her! Ah, this is the day we longed for; at last we have seen it!”

Lamentations 2:6

He has broken down his booth like a garden; he has destroyed his tabernacle; the Lord has abolished in Zion festival and Sabbath and in his fierce indignation has spurned king and priest.

Ezekiel 16:13

You were adorned with gold and silver, while your clothing was of fine linen, rich fabric, and embroidered cloth. You had choice flour and honey and oil for food. You grew exceedingly beautiful, fit to be a queen.

Ezekiel 16:14

Your fame spread among the nations on account of your beauty, for it was perfect because of my splendor that I had bestowed on you, says the Lord God.

Ezekiel 23:32

Thus says the Lord God: You shall drink your sister’s cup, deep and wide; it will bring scorn and derision; it holds so much.

Ezekiel 25:6

For thus says the Lord God: Because you have clapped your hands and stamped your feet and rejoiced with all the malice within you against the land of Israel,

Ezekiel 5:15

You shall be a mockery and a taunt, a warning and a horror, to the nations around you when I execute judgments on you in anger and fury and with furious punishments—I, the Lord, have spoken—

Daniel 9:16

O Lord, in view of all your righteous acts, let your anger and wrath, we pray, turn away from your city Jerusalem, your holy mountain; because of our sins and the iniquities of our ancestors, Jerusalem and your people have become a disgrace among all our neighbors.

Micah 6:16

For you have kept the statutes of Omri and all the works of the house of Ahab, and you have followed their counsels. Therefore I will make you a desolation and your inhabitants an object of hissing, so you shall bear the scorn of my people.

Nahum 3:19

There is no assuaging your hurt; your wound is mortal. All who hear the news about you clap their hands over you. For who has ever escaped your endless cruelty?

Zephaniah 2:15

Is this the exultant city that lived secure, that said to itself, “I am, and there is no one else”? What a desolation it has become, a lair for wild animals! Everyone who passes by it hisses and shakes the fist.

Matthew 27:39

Those who passed by derided him, shaking their heads

Mark 15:29

Those who passed by derided him, shaking their heads and saying, “Aha! You who would destroy the temple and build it in three days,