Lamentations 2:15

New American Bible - revised edition

All who pass by on the road, clap their hands at you; They hiss and wag their heads over daughter Jerusalem: “Is this the city they used to call perfect in beauty and joy of all the earth?”

Cross References

2 Kings 19:21

This is the word the Lord has spoken concerning him: She despises you, laughs you to scorn, the virgin daughter Zion! Behind you she wags her head, daughter Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 7:21

And this house which is so exalted—every passerby shall be horrified and ask: “Why has the Lord done such things to this land and to this house?”

Psalm 109:25

I have become a mockery to them; when they see me, they shake their heads.

Psalm 22:7

But I am a worm, not a man, scorned by men, despised by the people.

Psalm 48:2

Great is the Lord and highly praised in the city of our God: His holy mountain,

Psalm 48:3

fairest of heights, the joy of all the earth, Mount Zion, the heights of Zaphon, the city of the great king.

Psalm 50:2

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

Psalm 64:8

God shoots an arrow at them; in a moment they are struck down.

Isaiah 28:21

For the Lord shall rise up as on Mount Perazim, bestir himself as in the Valley of Gibeon, To carry out his work—strange his work! to perform his deed—alien his deed!

Isaiah 37:22

This is the word the Lord has spoken concerning him: She despises you, laughs you to scorn, the virgin daughter Zion; Behind you she wags her head, daughter Jerusalem.

Isaiah 64:11

Can you hold back, Lord, after all this? Can you remain silent, and afflict us so severely?

Jeremiah 18:16

Their land shall be made a waste, an object of endless hissing: All passersby will be horrified, shaking their heads.

Jeremiah 19:8

I will make this city a waste and an object of hissing. Because of all its wounds, every passerby will be horrified and hiss.

Jeremiah 25:18

to Jerusalem, the cities of Judah, its kings and princes, to make them a ruin and a waste, an object of hissing and cursing, as they are today;

Jeremiah 25:9

I am about to send for and fetch all the tribes from the north—oracle of the Lord—and I will send for Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, my servant; I will bring them against this land, its inhabitants, and all these neighboring nations. I will doom them, making them an object of horror, of hissing, of everlasting reproach.

Jeremiah 26:6

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

Jeremiah 29:18

I will pursue them with sword, famine, and pestilence, and make them an object of horror to all the kingdoms of the earth, a curse, a desolation, a hissing, and a reproach to all the nations among which I have banished them,

Jeremiah 48:27

Has Israel not been a laughingstock to you? Was he caught among thieves that you wag your heads whenever you speak of him?

Jeremiah 51:37

Babylon shall become a heap of ruins, a haunt of jackals; A place of horror and hissing, without inhabitants.

Lamentations 1:21

Hear how I am groaning; there is no one to comfort me. All my enemies hear of my misery and rejoice over what you have done. Bring on the day you proclaimed, and let them become like me!

Lamentations 1:8

Jerusalem has sinned grievously, therefore she has become a mockery; Those who honored her now demean her, for they saw her nakedness; She herself groans out loud, and turns away.

Lamentations 2:16

They open their mouths against you, all your enemies; They hiss and gnash their teeth, saying, “We have devoured her! How we have waited for this day— we have lived to see it!”

Lamentations 2:6

He laid waste his booth like a garden, destroyed his shrine; The Lord has blotted out in Zion feast day and sabbath, Has scorned in fierce wrath king and priest.

Ezekiel 16:13

Thus you were adorned with gold and silver; your garments made of fine linen, silk, and embroidered cloth. Fine flour, honey, and olive oil were your food. You were very, very beautiful, fit for royalty.

Ezekiel 16:14

You were renowned among the nations for your beauty, perfected by the splendor I showered on you—oracle of the Lord God.

Ezekiel 23:32

Thus says the Lord God: The cup of your sister you shall drink, deep and wide; It brings ridicule and mockery, it holds so much;

Ezekiel 25:6

For thus says the Lord God: Because you rejoiced over the land of Israel with scorn in your heart, clapping your hands and stamping your feet,

Ezekiel 5:15

And you will be a reproach and a taunt, a warning and a horror to the nations around you when I execute judgments against you in angry wrath, with furious chastisements. I, the Lord, have spoken!

Daniel 9:16

Lord, in keeping with all your just deeds, let your anger and your wrath be turned away from your city Jerusalem, your holy mountain. On account of our sins and the crimes of our ancestors, Jerusalem and your people have become the reproach of all our neighbors.

Micah 6:16

You have kept the decrees of Omri, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and you have walked in their counsels; Therefore I will deliver you up to ruin, and your citizens to derision; and you shall bear the reproach of the nations.

Nahum 3:19

There is no healing for your hurt, your wound is fatal. All who hear this news of you clap their hands over you; For who has not suffered under your endless malice?

Zephaniah 2:15

Is this the exultant city that dwelt secure, That told itself, “I and there is no one else”? How it has become a waste, a lair for wild animals! Those who pass by it hiss, and shake their fists!

Matthew 27:39

Those passing by reviled him, shaking their heads

Mark 15:29

Those passing by reviled him, shaking their heads and saying, “Aha! You who would destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days,