Verse 10
Lamentations 2:10
New King James Version
10
The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground,
and
keep silence: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.
Original Language Text
hebrew
יֵשְׁב֨וּ לָ/אָ֤רֶץ יִדְּמוּ֙ זִקְנֵ֣י בַת צִיּ֔וֹן הֶֽעֱל֤וּ עָפָר֙ עַל רֹאשָׁ֔/ם חָגְר֖וּ שַׂקִּ֑ים הוֹרִ֤ידוּ לָ/אָ֨רֶץ֙ רֹאשָׁ֔/ן בְּתוּלֹ֖ת יְרוּשָׁלִָֽם
English Translation
The elders of the daughter of Zion sit on the ground, they have cast dust on their heads, they have girded themselves with sackcloth, they have brought down their heads, the virgins of Jerusalem.
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Chapter 2 Context
1
How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger,
and cast down from heaven...
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2
The Lord hath swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and hath not pitied: he hath thrown down in...
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3
He hath cut off in
his fierce anger all the horn of Israel: he hath drawn back his right hand from b...
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4
He hath bent his bow like an enemy: he stood with his right hand as an adversary, and slew all
that...
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5
The Lord was as an enemy: he hath swallowed up Israel, he hath swallowed up all her palaces: he hath...
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6
And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as
if it were of
a garden: he hath destroyed his p...
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7
The Lord hath cast off his altar, he hath abhorred his sanctuary, he hath given up into the hand of...
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8
The LORD hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion: he hath stretched out a line, he...
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9
Her gates are sunk into the ground; he hath destroyed and broken her bars: her king and her princes...
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10
The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground,
and
keep silence: they have cast up dust up...
11
Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the des...
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12
They say to their mothers, Where
is corn and wine? when they swooned as the wounded in the streets o...
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13
What thing shall I take to witness for thee? what thing shall I liken to thee, O daughter of Jerusal...
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14
Thy prophets have seen vain and foolish things for thee: and they have not discovered thine iniquity...
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15
All that pass by clap
their hands at thee; they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem...
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16
All thine enemies have opened their mouth against thee: they hiss and gnash the teeth: they say, We...
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17
The LORD hath done
that which he had devised; he hath fulfilled his word that he had commanded in th...
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18
Their heart cried unto the Lord, O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day...
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19
Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out thine heart like water before...
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20
Behold, O LORD, and consider to whom thou hast done this. Shall the women eat their fruit,
and child...
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21
The young and the old lie on the ground in the streets: my virgins and my young men are fallen by th...
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22
Thou hast called as in a solemn day my terrors round about, so that in the day of the LORD’S anger n...
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