Verse 10

The Elders of the daughter of Zion sit vpon the grounde, and keepe silence: they haue cast vp dust vpon their heades: they haue girded them selues with sackecloth: the virgines of Ierusalem hang downe their heades to the ground.

Referenced Verses

  • Isa 3:26 : 26 Then shall her gates mourne and lament, and she, being desolate, shall sit vpon the ground.
  • Isa 15:3 : 3 In their streetes shall they bee gilded with sackecloth: on the toppes of their houses, and in their streetes euery one shall howle, and come downe with weeping.
  • Job 2:12-13 : 12 So when they lift vp their eyes a farre off, they knewe him not: therefore they lift vp their voyces and wept, and euery one of them rent his garment, and sprinkled dust vpon their heads toward the heauen. 13 So they sate by him vpon the ground seuen dayes, and seuen nights, and none spake a worde vnto him: for they sawe, that the griefe was very great.
  • Josh 7:6 : 6 Then Ioshua rent his clothes, and fell to the earth vpon his face before the Arke of the Lord, vntill the euentide, he, and the Elders of Israel, and put dust vpon their heads.
  • Lam 1:1 : 1 Howe doeth the citie remaine solitarie that was full of people? she is as a widowe: she that was great among the nations, & princesse among the prouinces, is made tributarie.
  • Lam 1:4 : 4 The wayes of Zion lament, because no man commeth to the solemne feastes: all her gates are desolate: her Priests sigh: her virgins are discomfited, and she is in heauinesse.
  • Lam 3:28 : 28 He sitteth alone, and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it vpon him.
  • Ezek 7:18 : 18 They shall also girde them selues with sackecloth, and feare shall couer them, and shame shalbe vpon all faces, & baldnes vpon their heads.
  • Isa 47:1 : 1 Come downe and sit in the dust: O virgine, daughter Babel, sit on the ground: there is no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called, Tender and delicate.
  • Amos 8:3 : 3 And the songs of the Temple shalbe howlings in that day, saith the Lord God: many dead bodies shalbe in euery place: they shall cast them forth with silence.
  • Amos 8:13 : 13 In that day shall the faire virgines and the yong men perish for thirst.
  • Rev 18:19 : 19 And they shall cast dust on their heads, and crie, weeping, and wayling, and say, Alas, alas, that great citie, wherein were made rich all that had ships on the sea by her costlinesse: for in one houre she is made desolate.
  • Isa 47:5 : 5 Sit still, and get thee into darkenesse, O daughter of the Chaldeas: for thou shalt no more be called, The ladie of kingdomes.
  • Jer 8:14 : 14 Why doe we stay? assemble your selues, and let vs enter into the strong cities, and let vs be quiet there: for the Lorde our God hath put vs to silence and giuen vs water with gall to drinke, because we haue sinned against the Lord.
  • Ezek 27:31 : 31 They shal plucke off their heare for thee & gird them with a sackecloth, and they shal weepe for thee with sorow of heart & bitter mourning.
  • Joel 1:8 : 8 Mourne like a virgine girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.
  • Amos 5:13 : 13 Therefore the prudent shal keepe silence in that time, for it is an euill time.
  • Lam 4:5 : 5 They that did feede delicately, perish in the streetes: they that were brought vp in skarlet, embrace the dongue.
  • Lam 4:16 : 16 The anger of the Lorde hath scattered them, he will no more regard them: they reuerenced not the face of the Priestes, nor had compassion of the Elders.
  • Lam 5:12 : 12 The princes are hanged vp by their hande: the faces of the elders were not had in honour.
  • Lam 5:14 : 14 The Elders haue ceased from the gate and the yong men from their songs.
  • 2 Sam 13:19 : 19 And Tamar put ashes on her head and rent the garment of diuers colours which was on her, and layde her hand on her head, and went her way crying.
  • Isa 36:22 : 22 Then came Eliakim the sonne of Hilkiah the steward of the house, and Shebna the chanceller, and Ioah the sonne of Asaph the recorder, vnto Hezekiah with rent clothes, and tolde him the wordes of Rabshakeh.