Lamentations 2:10

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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.

Cross References

2 Samuel 13:19

But Tamar put ashes on her head and tore the long robe that she was wearing; she put her hand on her head and went away, crying aloud as she went.

Isaiah 15:3

in the streets they bind on sackcloth; on the housetops and in the squares everyone wails and melts in tears.

Isaiah 3:24

Instead of perfume there will be a stench; and instead of a sash, a rope; and instead of well-styled hair, baldness; and instead of a rich robe, a binding of sackcloth; instead of beauty, shame.

Isaiah 3:26

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

Isaiah 36:22

Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah, who was in charge of the palace, and Shebna the secretary, and Joah son of Asaph, the recorder, came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn and told him the words of the Rabshakeh.

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 47:5

Sit in silence, and go into darkness, daughter Chaldea! For you shall no more be called the mistress of kingdoms.

Jeremiah 8:14

Why do we sit still? Gather together; let us go into the fortified cities and perish there, for the Lord our God has doomed us to perish and has given us poisoned water to drink because we have sinned against the Lord.

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 3:28

to sit alone in silence when the Lord has imposed it,

Lamentations 4:16

The Lord himself has scattered them; he will regard them no more; no honor was shown to the priests, no favor to the elders.

Lamentations 4:5

Those who feasted on delicacies perish in the streets; those who were brought up in purple cling to ash heaps.

Lamentations 5:12

Princes are hung up by their hands; no respect is shown to the elders.

Lamentations 5:14

The old men have left the city gate, the young men their music.

Ezekiel 27:30

and wail aloud over you and cry bitterly. They throw dust on their heads and wallow in ashes;

Ezekiel 27:31

they make themselves bald for you and put on sackcloth, and they weep over you in bitterness of soul, with bitter mourning.

Ezekiel 7:18

They shall put on sackcloth; horror shall cover them. Shame shall be on all faces, baldness on all their heads.

Joel 1:8

Lament like a virgin dressed in sackcloth for the husband of her youth.

Amos 5:13

Therefore the prudent will keep silent in such a time, for it is an evil time.

Amos 8:13

On that day the beautiful young women and the young men shall faint for thirst.

Amos 8:3

The songs of the temple shall become wailings on that day,” says the Lord God; “the dead bodies shall be many, cast out in every place. Be silent!”

Jonah 3:6

When the news reached the king of Nineveh, he rose from his throne, removed his robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.

Joshua 7:6

Then Joshua tore his clothes and fell to the ground on his face before the ark of the Lord until the evening, he and the elders of Israel, and they put dust on their heads.

Revelation 18:19

And they threw dust on their heads as they wept and mourned, crying out, “Alas, alas, the great city, where all who had ships at sea grew rich by her wealth! For in one hour she has been laid waste.”