Isaiah 3:26
And the gates of Zion will lament and mourn; destitute, she will sit on the ground.
BSB
ASV
And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she shall be desolate and sit upon the ground.
KJV
And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she being desolate shall sit upon the ground.
And her gates shall lament and mourn,.... These being utterly destroyed; or there being none to pass through them, meaning the gates of the city of Jerusalem: and she being desolate; clear of inhabitants, quite emptied, and exhausted of men; being laid even with the ground, and her children within her, Luk 19:44. shall sit upon the ground; being levelled with it, and not one stone cast upon another; alluding to the posture of mourners, Job 2:
Sit upon the ground - Sitting on the ground was a posture that denoted mourning and deep distress.
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Luke 19:44They will level you to the ground—you and the children within your walls. They will not leave one stone on another, because you did not recognize the time of your visitation from God.”
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“As for what you see here, the time will come when not one stone will be left on another; every one will be thrown down.”
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children together as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you…
Whoever believes in Him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe has already been condemned, because he has not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son.
Jerusalem has sinned greatly; therefore she has become an object of scorn. All who honored her now despise her, for they have seen her nakedness; she herself groans and turns away.
Conduct yourselves with such honor among the Gentiles that, though they slander you as evildoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day He visits us.
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Job 2:13Then they sat on the ground with him for seven days and seven nights, but no one spoke a word to him because they saw how intense his suffering was.
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When they reached the threshing floor of Atad, which is across the Jordan, they lamented and wailed loudly, and Joseph mourned for his father seven days.
When I heard these words, I sat down and wept. I mourned for days, fasting and praying before the God of heaven.
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Jeremiah 14:2“Judah mourns and her gates languish. Her people wail for the land, and a cry goes up from Jerusalem.
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For the brokenness of the daughter of my people I am crushed. I mourn; horror has gripped me.