Lamentations 2:10

Tree of Life Version

The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground in silence. They threw dust on their heads and girded themselves with sackcloth. The maidens of Jerusalem have bowed their heads to the ground.

Cross References

2 Samuel 13:19

Tamar put ashes on her head and rent her long-sleeved garment that was on her. She laid her hand on her head and was crying aloud as she went away.

Isaiah 15:3

In their streets they wear sackcloth. On their housetops and in their plazas, everyone wails, weeping profusely.

Isaiah 3:24

Now it will come to pass: Instead of sweet spices there will be rottenness; instead of a sash, rags; instead of curled hair, baldness; instead of fine clothing, sackcloth; and branding instead of beauty.

Isaiah 3:26

Her gates will lament and mourn. Desolate, she will sit on the ground.

Isaiah 36:22

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

Isaiah 47:1

Come down and sit in the dust, virgin daughter of Babylon. Sit on the ground without a throne, daughter of the Chaldeans. For you will no more be called tender and delicate.

Isaiah 47:5

Sit in silence, go into darkness, daughter of the Chaldeans. For you will no more be called the mistress-queen of kingdoms.

Jeremiah 8:14

“Why are we sitting here? Assemble! Let us flee to the fortified cities and perish there! For Adonai Eloheinu has silenced us and given us poisoned water to drink. For we have sinned against Adonai.

Lamentations 1:1

How lonely sits the city, once so full of people! She who was once great among the nations has become like a widow. The princess among the provinces has become a forced laborer.

Lamentations 1:4

The roads to Zion mourn for no one comes to her moadim. All her gates are desolate. Her kohanim groan, her maidens grieve— she is in bitter anguish.

Lamentations 3:28

Let him sit alone and be silent, since He has laid it upon him.

Lamentations 4:16

Adonai Himself has scattered them. He will look on them no more. They did not respect the kohanim. They did not favor the elders.

Lamentations 4:5

Those who used to eat delicacies are desolate in the streets. Those who were brought up in purple embrace trash heaps.

Lamentations 5:12

Princes are hung up by their hands; elders are dishonored.

Lamentations 5:14

Elders are gone from the gate, young men from their music.

Ezekiel 27:30

They will raise their voices over you and cry bitterly. They will throw up dust on their heads. They will roll themselves in ashes.

Ezekiel 27:31

They will shave themselves bald for you and put on sackcloth. They will weep for you with bitter soul, with bitter lament.

Ezekiel 7:18

They will also gird on sackcloth. Horror will cover them. Shame will be upon all faces. Baldness will be upon all their heads.

Joel 1:8

Wail like a virgin dressed in sackcloth for the husband of her youth!

Amos 5:13

Therefore the prudent keep silent at such a time —for it is a distressful time.

Amos 8:13

In that day, the fair virgins and the virile young men will faint from thirst.

Amos 8:3

The songs of the palace will become howls in that day.” It is a declaration of my Lord Adonai. “So many corpses flung everywhere! Hush!

Jonah 3:6

When the word reached the king of Nineveh, he rose from his throne, took off his robe, covered himself in sackcloth, and sat in the ashes.

Joshua 7:6

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

Revelation 18:19

And they threw dust on their heads and were crying out, weeping and mourning, “Alas, alas, O great city— in her all who had ships at sea grew rich from her wealth! For in a single hour has she been ruined!