Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
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.
All her gates
Her priests
General references
Bible References
Ways
Lamentations 2:6 And He has violently treated His tabernacle like a garden booth;
He hasdestroyed His appointed meeting place.
The Lord hascaused to be forgotten
The appointed feast and sabbath in Zion,
And He hasdespised king and priest
In the indignation of His anger.
He has
The Lord has
The appointed feast and sabbath in Zion,
And He has
In the indignation of His anger.
Lamentations 5:13 Young men worked at the grinding mill,
And youthsstumbled under loads of wood.
And youths
Isaiah 24:4
The earth mourns and withers, the world fades and withers, the exalted of the people of the earth fade away.
Jeremiah 14:2 “Judah mourns
Andher gates languish;
They sit on the groundin mourning,
And thecry of Jerusalem has ascended.
And
They sit on the ground
And the
Micah 3:12 Therefore, on account of you
Zion will be plowed as a field,
Jerusalem will become a heap of ruins,
And themountain of the temple will become high places of a forest.
And the
All her gates
Lamentations 2:9 Her gates have sunk into the ground,
He has destroyed and broken her bars.
Her king and her princes are among the nations;
Thelaw is no more.
Also, her prophets find
No vision from the Lord.
He has destroyed and broken her bars.
Her king and her princes are among the nations;
The
Also, her prophets find
Jeremiah 9:11 “I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins,
A haunt ofjackals;
And I will make the cities of Judah adesolation, without inhabitant.”
A haunt of
And I will make the cities of Judah a
Jeremiah 10:22 The sound of a report! Behold, it comes—
A great commotionout of the land of the north—
Tomake the cities of Judah
A desolation, a haunt of jackals.
A great commotion
To
A desolation, a haunt of jackals.
Jeremiah 33:10
“Thus says the Lord, ‘Yet again there will be heard in this place, of which you say, “It is a waste, without man and without beast,” that is, in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem that are desolate, without man and without inhabitant and without beast,
Her priests
Lamentations 1:11 All her people groan seeking bread;
They have given their precious things for food
Torestore their lives themselves.
“See, O Lord, and look,
For I amdespised.”
They have given their precious things for food
To
“See, O Lord, and look,
For I am
Lamentations 2:10 The elders of the daughter of Zion
Sit on the ground, they are silent.
They have throwndust on their heads;
They have girded themselves withsackcloth.
Thevirgins of Jerusalem
Have bowed their heads to the ground.
They have thrown
They have girded themselves with
The
Have bowed their heads to the ground.
Isaiah 32:9 Rise up, you women who are at ease,
And hear my voice;
Give ear to my word,
You complacent daughters.
And hear my voice;
You complacent daughters.
Joel 1:8 Wail like a virgin girded with sackcloth
For the bridegroom of her youth.
For the bridegroom of her youth.
General references
Isaiah 24:12 Desolation is left in the city
And thegate is battered to ruins.
And the
Isaiah 64:10 Your holy cities have become a wilderness,
Zion has become a wilderness,
Jerusalem a desolation.
Zion has become a wilderness,
Jerusalem a desolation.