Lamentations 2:10
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.
Context
This verse from Lamentations Chapter 2 connects to 10 cross-references. God is described as an adversary who has swallowed up Israel without mercy, cast down the defenses of Judah, and burned up all the tents of Jacob like a flaming fire. The false prophets failed to expose Zion's iniquity. The …
Autres traductions
The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, they 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.
Sit on the earth--keep silent do the elders of the daughter of Zion, They have caused dust to go up on their head, They have girded on sackcloth, Put down to the earth their head have the virgins of Jerusalem.
The responsible men of the daughter of Zion are seated on the earth without a word; they have put dust on their heads, they are clothed in haircloth: the heads of the virgins of Jerusalem are bent down to the earth.
Références croisées
And Joshua rent his clothes, and fell to the earth upon his face before the ark of the Lord until …
And Tamar put ashes on her head, and rent her garment of divers colours that was on her, and laid …
And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew him not, they lifted up their voice, and wept; …
So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word unto …
And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she being desolate shall sit upon the ground.
In their streets they shall gird themselves with sackcloth: on the tops of their houses, and in their streets, every …
Then came Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, that was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son …
Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, sit on the ground: there is no throne, …
Sit thou silent, and get thee into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called, …
Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the defenced cities, and let us be silent …