Lamentations 2:10
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10 The elders of daughter Zion
sit on the ground in silence;
they have thrown dust on their heads;
they put on sackcloth;
the young women of Jerusalem
have bowed their heads to the ground.(A)
Isaiah 3:26
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26 And her gates shall lament and mourn;
desolate, she shall sit upon the ground.(A)
Isaiah 15:3
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3 in the streets they bind on sackcloth;
on the housetops and in the squares
everyone wails and melts in tears.(A)
Job 2:12-13
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12 When they saw him from a distance, they did not recognize him, and they raised their voices and wept aloud; they tore their robes and threw dust in the air upon their heads.(A) 13 They sat with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his suffering was very great.(B)
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Amos 8:3
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3 The songs of the temple[a] shall become wailings on that day,”
says the Lord God;
“the dead bodies shall be many,
cast out in every place. Be silent!”(A)
Notas al pie
- 8.3 Or palace
Ezekiel 7:18
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18 They shall put on sackcloth;
horror shall cover them.
Shame shall be on all faces,
baldness on all their heads.(A)
Lamentations 3:28
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- 3.28 Heb he
Lamentations 1:4
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4 The roads to Zion mourn,
for no one comes to the festivals;
all her gates are desolate;
her priests groan;
her young girls grieve,[a]
and her lot is bitter.(A)
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- 1.4 Meaning of Heb uncertain
Lamentations 1:1
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The Deserted City
1 How lonely sits the city
that once was full of people!
How like a widow she has become,
she that was great among the nations!
She that was a princess among the provinces
has become subject to forced labor.(A)
Isaiah 47:1
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The Humiliation of Babylon
47 Come down and sit in the dust,
virgin daughter Babylon!
Sit on the ground without a throne,
daughter Chaldea!
For you shall no more be called
tender and delicate.(A)
Joshua 7:6
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6 Then Joshua tore his clothes and fell to the ground on his face before the ark of the Lord until the evening, he and the elders of Israel, and they put dust on their heads.(A)
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Revelation 18:19
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19 And they threw dust on their heads as they wept and mourned, crying out,
“Alas, alas, the great city,
where all who had ships at sea
grew rich by her wealth!
For in one hour she has been laid waste.”(A)
Amos 8:13
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13 On that day the beautiful young women and the young men
shall faint for thirst.(A)
Amos 5:13
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13 Therefore the prudent will keep silent in such a time,
for it is an evil time.
Joel 1:8
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8 Lament like a virgin dressed in sackcloth
for the husband of her youth.(A)
Ezekiel 27:31
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31 they make themselves bald for you
and put on sackcloth,
and they weep over you in bitterness of soul,
with bitter mourning.(A)
Lamentations 5:14
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14 The old men have left the city gate,
the young men their music.
Lamentations 5:12
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12 Princes are hung up by their hands;
no respect is shown to the elders.(A)
Lamentations 4:16
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16 The Lord himself has scattered them;
he will regard them no more;
no honor was shown to the priests,
no favor to the elders.(A)
Lamentations 4:5
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5 Those who feasted on delicacies
perish in the streets;
those who were brought up in purple
cling to ash heaps.
Jeremiah 8:14
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14 Why do we sit still?
Gather together; let us go into the fortified cities
and perish there,
for the Lord our God has doomed us to perish
and has given us poisoned water to drink
because we have sinned against the Lord.(A)
Isaiah 47:5
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5 Sit in silence, and go into darkness,
daughter Chaldea!
For you shall no more be called
the mistress of kingdoms.(A)
Isaiah 36:22
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22 Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah, who was in charge of the palace, and Shebna the secretary, and Joah son of Asaph, the recorder, came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn and told him the words of the Rabshakeh.(A)
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2 Samuel 13:19
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19 But Tamar put ashes on her head and tore the long robe that she was wearing; she put her hand on her head and went away, crying aloud as she went.(A)
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