Isaiah 3:26

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

The city will mourn and sit in the dust, emptied of its people.

Cross References

Job 2:13

For seven days and nights, they sat silently on the ground beside him, because they realized what terrible pain he was in.

Job 2:8

Then Job sat on the ash heap to show his sorrow. And while he was scraping his sores with a broken piece of pottery,

Isaiah 14:31

Cry and weep in the gates of your towns, you Philistines! Smoke blows in from the north, and every soldier is ready.

Isaiah 29:2

I will still make you suffer, and your people will cry when I make an altar of you.

Isaiah 32:14

The palace will be deserted, the crowded city empty. Fortresses and towers will for ever become playgrounds for wild donkeys and pastures for sheep.

Isaiah 33:9

Fields are dry and barren; Mount Lebanon wilts with shame. Sharon Valley is a desert; the forests of Bashan and Carmel have lost their leaves.

Isaiah 47:1

City of Babylon, you are delicate and untouched, but that will change. Surrender your royal power and sit in the dust.

Isaiah 6:11

Then I asked the LORD, “How long will this last?” The LORD answered: Until their towns are destroyed and their houses are deserted, until their fields are empty,

Jeremiah 14:2

Judah and Jerusalem weep as the land dries up.

Jeremiah 15:8

There will be more widows in Judah than grains of sand on a beach. A surprise attack at midday! And the mothers in Jerusalem mourn for their children.

Lamentations 1:1

Jerusalem, once so crowded, lies deserted and lonely. This city that was known all over the world is now like a widow. This queen of the nations has been made a slave.

Lamentations 1:4

The roads to Zion mourn because no one travels there to celebrate the festivals. The city gates are deserted; priests are weeping. Young women are raped; Zion is in sorrow!

Lamentations 2:10

Zion's leaders are silent. They just sit on the ground, tossing dust on their heads and wearing sackcloth. Her young women can do nothing but stare at the ground.

Lamentations 2:8

The LORD had decided to tear down the walls of Zion stone by stone. So he started destroying and did not stop until walls and fortresses mourned and trembled.

Ezekiel 12:20

Every town will lie in ruins, and the land will be a barren desert. Then they will know that I am the LORD.

Ezekiel 26:16

The kings will step down from their thrones, then take off their royal robes and fine clothes, and sit on the ground, trembling. They will be so shocked at the news of your defeat that they will shake in fear

Micah 1:9

The nation is fatally wounded. Judah is doomed. Jerusalem will fall.

Matthew 11:17

“We played the flute, but you would not dance! We sang a funeral song, but you would not mourn!”

Luke 19:44

They will level you to the ground and kill your people. Not one stone in your buildings will be left on top of another. This will happen because you did not see that God had come to save you.