Lamentations 2:15
All that pass by clap their hands at thee; they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city that men call The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?
Nota de Estudo
Study Note
'All who pass by clap their hands at you; they hiss and wag their heads at the daughter of Jerusalem: Is this the city that was called the perfection of beauty, the joy of all the earth?' — the taunt of the nations over fallen Jerusalem employs the vocabulary of cultic impurity and reversal that characterizes all five laments of the book. The phrase 'perfection of beauty, the joy of all the earth' draws on the Zion tradition of Psalms 48:2 and 50:2, making the contrast between former glory and present desolation theologically acute. Lamentations is unique in the Hebrew Bible as an extended, sustained articulation of communal grief without offering resolution within the text, modeling honest lamentation as a form of theological honesty before God. The book's candid language of divine abandonment and wrath has provided a model for Christian theologies of suffering that resist premature consolation.
Outras Traduções
All that pass by clap their hands at thee; They hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city that men called The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?
Clapped hands at thee have all passing by the way, They have hissed--and they shake the head At the daughter of Jerusalem: `Is this the city of which they said: The perfection of beauty, a joy to all the land?'
All who go by make a noise with their hands at you; they make hisses, shaking their heads at the daughter of Jerusalem, and saying, Is this the town which was the crown of everything beautiful, the joy of all the earth?
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Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.
All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,
Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.