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.
Lamentations 2:10 in other translations
| BSB | The elders of the Daughter of Zion sit on the ground in silence. They have thrown dust on their heads and put on sackcloth. The young women of Jerusalem have bowed their heads to the ground. |
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| WEB | The elders of the daughter of Zion sit on the ground. They keep silence. They have cast up dust on their heads. They have clothed themselves with sackcloth. The virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground. |
| ASV | 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. |
| YLT | 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. |
| DARBY | The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, they keep silence; they have cast dust upon their heads, they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their head to the ground. |
| BBE | 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. |
| Webster | 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. |
What does Lamentations 2:10 mean?
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Lamentations 2:10-22
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Lamentations 2:10 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Lamentations 2:10
- Isaiah 3:26
And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she being desolate shall sit upon the ground.
- Job 2:12-13
And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew him not, they lifted up their voice, and wept; and they rent every one his mantle, and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven. So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word unto him: for they saw that his grief was very great.
- Isaiah 15:3
In their streets they shall gird themselves with sackcloth: on the tops of their houses, and in their streets, every one shall howl, weeping abundantly.
- Ezekiel 7:18
They shall also gird themselves with sackcloth, and horror shall cover them; and shame shall be upon all faces, and baldness upon all their heads.
- Lamentations 1:4
The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitterness.
- Amos 8:3
And the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day, saith the Lord God: there shall be many dead bodies in every place; they shall cast them forth with silence.
- Joshua 7:6
And Joshua rent his clothes, and fell to the earth upon his face before the ark of the Lord until the eventide, he and the elders of Israel, and put dust upon their heads.
- Isaiah 47:1
Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, sit on the ground: there is no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate.
- Lamentations 3:28
He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it upon him.
- Lamentations 1:1
How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how is she become as a widow! she that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary!
- Lamentations 5:14
The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.
- Amos 8:13
In that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst.
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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
4:5,16; 5:12,14; Job 2:13; Isa 3:26; 47:1,5
sit.Sitting on the ground was a posture of mourning and deep distress. Hence the coin struck by Vespasian, on the capture of Jerusalem, has on the obverse side a palm tree, the emblem of Judea, and under it a woman, the emblem of Jerusalem, sitting down, with her elbow on her knee, and her head supported by her hand, with the legend {Judæa capta.}
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and keep.
3:28; Jer 8:14; Am 5:13; 8:3
cast up.
Jos 7:6; 2Sa 13:19; Job 2:12; Re 18:19
they have girded.
Isa 15:3; 36:22; Eze 7:18; 27:31; Joe 1:8
the virgins.
1:4; Am 8:13
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Context
- Lamentations 2:9
Her gates are sunk into the ground; he hath destroyed and broken her bars: her king and her princes are among the Gentiles: the law is no more; her prophets also find no vision from the Lord.
- 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.
- Lamentations 2:11
Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.
Lamentations 2:10 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Sentáronse en tierra, callaron los ancianos de la hija de Sión; echaron polvo sobre sus cabezas, ciñéronse de saco; las vírgenes de Jerusalem bajaron sus cabezas á tierra. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Les anciens de la fille de Sion sont assis par terre, ils gardent le silence; ils ont mis de la poussière sur leur tête, ils se sont ceints de sacs; les vierges de Jérusalem baissent leur tête vers la terre. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Verstummt sitzen auf der Erde die Ältesten der Tochter Zion; sie haben Staub auf ihr Haupt geworfen, Sacktuch sich umgegürtet; die Jungfrauen Jerusalems haben ihr Haupt zur Erde gesenkt. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Sederunt in terra, conticuerunt senes filiæ Sion; consperserunt cinere capita sua, accincti sunt ciliciis: abjecerunt in terram capita sua virgines Jerusalem. |