Lamentations 2:10 - The Scriptures 1998

¹⁰ The elders of the daughter of Tsiyon Sit on the ground, are silent. They have thrown dust on their heads, They have girded themselves with sackcloth. The maidens of Yerushalayim Have let their heads hang to the ground.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁰ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁰ The elders of the Daughter of Zion sit on the ground keeping silent; they have cast dust on their heads, they have girded themselves with sackcloth. The maidens of Jerusalem have bowed their heads to the ground [says Jeremiah].

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁰ 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.

Common English Bible

¹⁰ Daughter Zion’s elders sit on the ground and mourn. They throw dust on their heads; they put on mourning clothes. Jerusalem’s young women bow their heads all the way to the ground.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁰ JOD. The elders of the daughter of Zion have become idle; they sit on the ground. They have sprinkled their heads with ashes. They have been wrapped with haircloth. The virgins of Jerusalem have cast their heads down to the ground.

Lamentations 2:10 Cross References

2 Samuel 13:19

And Tamar put ashes on her head, and tore her long coat that was on her, and put her hand on her head and went away crying bitterly.

Isaiah 15:3

In their streets they shall put on sackcloth; on the tops of their houses and in their streets everyone wails, weeping bitterly.

Isaiah 3:24

And it shall be: Instead of a sweet fragrance, a smell of decay; and instead of a belt, a rope; and instead of well-set hair, baldness; and instead of a festal robe, a girding of sackcloth; and branding instead of loveliness.

Isaiah 3:26

And her gates shall lament and mourn, and she, deserted, shall sit on the ground.

Isaiah 36:22

And Elyaqim son of Ḥ

Isaiah 47:1

“Come down and sit in the dust, O maiden daughter of Baḇ

Isaiah 47:5

“Sit silent, and go into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans! For no more do they call you Mistress of Reigns.

Jeremiah 8:14

Why are we sitting still? Gather yourselves, and let us go into the walled cities, and let us be silent there. For יהוה  our Elohim has let us perish and given us poisoned water to drink, because we have sinned against יהוה.

Lamentations 1:1

How alone she sits, The city once great with people! Like a widow she has become, One great among the nations! A princess among provinces has become a slave!

Lamentations 1:4

The ways to Tsiyon mourn For no one comes to the appointed times. All her gates are deserted, Her priests sigh, her maidens are afflicted, And she has bitterness.

Lamentations 3:28

Let him sit alone and be silent, Because He has laid it on him.

Lamentations 4:16

The face of יהוה  scattered them. He no longer regards them. They showed no respect for the priests Nor favour to the elders.

Lamentations 4:5

Those who ate delicacies Have been laid waste in the streets; Those who were brought up in scarlet Have embraced dunghills.

Lamentations 5:12

Rulers were hung up by their hands, And elders were not respected.

Lamentations 5:14

Elders have ceased from the gate, Young men from their song.

Ezekiel 27:30

and they shall raise their voice and cry bitterly over you, and cast dust on their heads, rolling themselves in ashes.

Ezekiel 27:31

“And they shall shave themselves bald because of you, and shall gird themselves with sackcloth. And they shall weep for you with bitterness of heart and bitter wailing.

Ezekiel 7:18

‘And they shall gird on sackcloth, and be covered with trembling. And shame shall be on every face, and baldness on all their heads.

Joel 1:8

Wail like a maiden girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.

Amos 5:13

Therefore the wise keep silent at that time, for it is an evil time.

Amos 8:13

“In that day the pretty maidens and strong young men shall faint from thirst,

Amos 8:3

“And the songs of the hĕ

Jonah 3:6

And the word reached the sovereign of Ninewĕ

Joshua 7:6

And Yehoshua tore his garments, and fell to the earth on his face before the ark of יהוה  until evening, both he and the elders of Yisra’ĕ

Revelation 18:19

“And they threw dust on their heads and cried out, weeping and mourning, and saying, ‘Woe! Woe, the great city, in which all who had ships on the sea became rich by her wealth! For in one hour she was laid waste.’