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Isaiah 3:26
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And her gates will lament and mourn,And deserted she will sit on the ground.
And her gates will lament and mourn, And deserted she will sit on the ground.
And her gates shall mourne and bewayle: and she deyng desolate, shall syt vpon the grounde.
and her gates shall lament and mourn; and, stripped, she shall sit upon the ground.
Her gates shall lament and mourn, And she being desolate shall sit on the ground.
And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she shall sit bare on the ground.
There will be crying and sadness in the meeting places by the city gates. Jerusalem will sit there empty, like a woman who has lost everything to thieves and robbers and now just sits on the ground and cries.
Her gates shall lament and mourn; And she shall be desolate and sit on the ground.
And her gates shall lament and mourne; and she being desolate, shall sit vpon the ground.
And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she being desolate shall sit upon the ground.
At that tyme shall their gates mourne and complayne, and they shal syt as desolate folck vpon the earth.
And Jerusalem's gates will lament (cry out in grief) and mourn [as those who wail for the dead]; And she, being ruined and desolate, will sit upon the ground.
And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she shall be desolate and sit upon the ground.
And in the public places of her towns will be sorrow and weeping; and she will be seated on the earth, waste and uncovered.
And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she [being] desolate, shall sit upon the ground.
Her gates will mourn and lament; deprived of her people, she will sit on the ground.
The city will mourn and sit in the dirt, emptied of its people.
Her gates will lament and mourn; ravaged, she will sit on the ground.
Then shall her gates mourne and lament, and she, being desolate, shall sit vpon the ground.
And her gates shall lament and mourn; and her victory shall turn to defeat.
Her gates shall lament and mourn; And she shall be desolate and sit on the ground.
And her gates shall lament and mourn; and utterly bereft she shall sit upon the ground.
The gates of Zion will weep and mourn. The city will be like a ravaged woman, huddled on the ground.
Jerusalem's gates will be filled with sorrow. She will sit on the ground, laid waste and empty.
And the stores of your ornaments shall mourn, and thou shalt be left alone, and shalt be levelled with the ground.
And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she shall be desolate and sit upon the ground.
And the gates of Zion will lament and mourn; destitute, she will sit on the ground.
And her gates shall lament and mourn; ravaged, she shall sit upon the ground.
And her gates shall mourn and lament, - And forsaken, on the ground, shah she sit.
And her gates shall lament and mourn, and she shall sit desolate on the ground.
And her gates shall lament and mourn, and she shall be banished; she shall sit upon the ground.
And her gates shall lament and mourn; empty, she shall sit on the ground.
And her gates will lament and mourn, And she will sit deserted on the ground.
There will be crying and sadness near the city gates. Jerusalem will be like a woman who has lost everything and sits on the ground.
The city gates will mourn and cry, and the city itself will be like a woman sitting on the ground, stripped naked.
Then her gates will lament and mourn; deserted, she will sit on the ground.
And the yatis therof schulen weile, and morene; and it schal sitte desolat in erthe.
And her gates shall lament and mourn; ravaged, she shall sit upon the ground.
And lamented and mourned have her openings, Yea, she hath been emptied, on the earth she sitteth!
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
her gates: Jeremiah 14:2, Lamentations 1:4
desolate: or, emptied, Heb. cleansed
shall sit: Isaiah 47:1, Job 2:8, Job 2:13, Lamentations 2:10, Ezekiel 26:16, Luke 19:44
Reciprocal: Isaiah 4:1 - seven Isaiah 6:11 - Until the Isaiah 24:4 - mourneth Isaiah 49:21 - am desolate Isaiah 52:2 - Shake Jeremiah 7:34 - for Jeremiah 13:18 - sit Jeremiah 15:8 - widows Lamentations 1:1 - sit Lamentations 2:8 - he made Lamentations 3:11 - he hath made Ezekiel 12:20 - General 1 Timothy 5:5 - and desolate
Gill's Notes on the Bible
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, Luke 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 2:13. Our countryman, Mr. Gregory k, thinks that the device of the coin of the emperor Vespasian, in the reverse of it, upon taking Judea, which was a woman sitting on the ground, leaning back, to a palm tree, with this inscription, "Judea Capta", was contrived out of this prophecy; and that he was helped to it by Josephus, the Jew, then in his court. The whole prophecy had its accomplishment, not in the Babylonish captivity, as Jarchi suggests, much less in the times of Ahaz, as Kimchi and Abarbinal suppose, but in the times of Jerusalem's destruction by the Romans.
k Notes and Observations, &c, p. 26, 27.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
And her gates - Cities were surrounded with walls, and were entered through gates opening into the principal streets. Those gates became, of course, the places of chief confluence and of business; and the expression here means, that in all the places of confluence, or amidst the assembled people, there should be lamentation on account of the slain in battle, and the loss of their mighty men in war.
And she - Jerusalem is often represented as a female distinguished for beauty. It is here represented as a female sitting in a posture of grief.
Being desolate, shall sit upon the ground - To sit on the ground, or in the dust, was the usual posture of grief and mourning, denoting great depression and humiliation; Lamentations 2:10; Lamentations 3:28; Jeremiah 15:17; Job 3:13; Ezra 9:3-5. It is a remarkable coincidence, that in the medals which were made by the Romans to commemorate the captivity of Judea and Jerusalem, Judea is represented under the figure of a female sitting in a posture of grief, under a palm tree, with this inscription - judea capta. The passage here, however, refers not to the captivity by the Romans, but to the first destruction by Nebuchadnezzar. It is a tender and most affecting image of desolation. During the captivity at Babylon, it was completely fulfilled; and for ages since, Judea might be appropriately represented by a captive female sitting pensively on the ground.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Isaiah 3:26. Sit upon the ground. — Sitting on the ground was a posture that denoted mourning and deep distress. The prophet Jeremiah (Lamentations 2:8) has given it the first place among many indications of sorrow, in the following elegant description of the same state of distress of his country: -
"The elders of the daughter of Sion sit on the ground,
they are silent:
They have cast up dust on their heads; they have girded
themselves with sackcloth;
The virgins of Jerusalem have bowed down their heads to
the ground."
"We find Judea," says Mr. Addison, (on Medals, Dial. ii,) "on several coins of Vespasian and Titus, in a posture that denotes sorrow and captivity. I need not mention her sitting on the ground, because we have already spoken of the aptness of such a posture to represent an extreme affliction. I fancy the Romans might have an eye on the customs of the Jewish nation, as well as those of their country, in the several marks of sorrow they have set on this figure. The psalmist describes the Jews lamenting their captivity in the same pensive posture: 'By the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept, when we remembered thee, O Zion.' But what is more remarkable, we find Judea represented as a woman in sorrow sitting on the ground, in a passage of the prophet, that foretells the very captivity recorded on this medal." Mr. Addison, I presume, refers to this place of Isaiah; and therefore must have understood it as foretelling the destruction of Jerusalem and the Jewish nation by the Romans: whereas it seems plainly to relate, in its first and more immediate view at least, to the destruction of the city by Nebuchadnezzar, and the dissolution of the Jewish state under the captivity at Babylon. - L.
Several of the coins mentioned here by Mr. Addison are in my own collection: and to such I have already referred in this work. I shall describe one here. On the obverse a fine head of the emperor Vespasian with this legend, Imperator Julius Caesar Vespasianus Augustus, Pontifex Maximus, Tribunitia Potestate Pater Patriae, Consul VIII.
On the reverse a tall palm tree, emblem of the land of Palestine, the emperor standing on the left, close to the tree, with a trophy behind him; on the right, Judea under the figure of a female captive sitting on the ground, with her head resting on her hand, the elbow on her knee, weeping. Around is this legend, Judea Capta. Senates Consulto. However this prediction may refer proximately to the destruction of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar, I am fully of opinion that it ultimately refers to the final ruin of the Jewish state by the Romans. And so it has been understood by the general run of the best and most learned interpreters and critics.
