They sat with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his suffering was very great.
Isaiah 3:26 - New Revised Standard Version And her gates shall lament and mourn; ravaged, she shall sit upon the ground. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she being desolate shall sit upon the ground. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And [Jerusalem's] gates shall lament and mourn [as those who wail for the dead]; and she, being ruined and desolate, shall sit upon the ground. American Standard Version (1901) And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she shall be desolate and sit upon the ground. Common English Bible Her gates will lament and mourn; desolate, she will sit on the ground. Catholic Public Domain Version And her gates will grieve and mourn. And she will sit on the ground, desolate. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And her gates shall lament and mourn: and she shall sit desolate on the ground. |
They sat with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his suffering was very great.
Job took a potsherd with which to scrape himself, and sat among the ashes.
Wail, O gate; cry, O city; melt in fear, O Philistia, all of you! For smoke comes out of the north, and there is no straggler in its ranks.
Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be moaning and lamentation, and Jerusalem shall be to me like an Ariel.
For the palace will be forsaken, the populous city deserted; the hill and the watchtower will become dens forever, the joy of wild asses, a pasture for flocks;
The land mourns and languishes; Lebanon is confounded and withers away; Sharon is like a desert; and Bashan and Carmel shake off their leaves.
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.
Then I said, “How long, O Lord?” And he said: “Until cities lie waste without inhabitant, and houses without people, and the land is utterly desolate;
Judah mourns and her gates languish; they lie in gloom on the ground, and the cry of Jerusalem goes up.
Their widows became more numerous than the sand of the seas; I have brought against the mothers of youths a destroyer at noonday; I have made anguish and terror fall upon her suddenly.
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 a vassal.
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.
The elders of daughter Zion sit on the ground in silence; they have thrown dust on their heads and put on sackcloth; the young girls of Jerusalem have bowed their heads to the ground.
The Lord determined to lay in ruins the wall of daughter Zion; he stretched the line; he did not withhold his hand from destroying; he caused rampart and wall to lament; they languish together.
The inhabited cities shall be laid waste, and the land shall become a desolation; and you shall know that I am the Lord.
Then all the princes of the sea shall step down from their thrones; they shall remove their robes and strip off their embroidered garments. They shall clothe themselves with trembling, and shall sit on the ground; they shall tremble every moment, and be appalled at you.
For her wound is incurable. It has come to Judah; it has reached to the gate of my people, to Jerusalem.
‘We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we wailed, and you did not mourn.’
They will crush you to the ground, you and your children within you, and they will not leave within you one stone upon another; because you did not recognize the time of your visitation from God.”