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Lamentations 2:10
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Lamentations 2:10
10The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, and keep silence: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.
10The Elders of the daughter of Zion sit vpon the ground and keepe silence: they haue cast vp dust vpon their heads: they haue girded themselues with sackcloth: the virgins of Ierusalem hang downe their heades to the ground.
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DEFINED WORDS
Lamentations 2:10
The earth or soil; a foundation, basis, or reason; also to establish firmly.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
To hold, preserve, guard, observe, maintain, restrain, or continue, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The absence of speech or sound; holding one's peace.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To throw, send forth, place, reckon, or discard, with the exact sense determined by context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Fine, dry particles of earth; the ground or earth, often as an image of frailty, abasement, or death.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Bound; surrounded; invested; put on.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Coarse cloth worn as a sign of mourning, humiliation, or repentance.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Persons who have not had sexual relations; in KJV usage, especially unmarried maidens.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · KJV usage (PCE)
To put to death by suspending by the neck. To cover or furnish by any thing suspended or fastened to the walls.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
From a higher place or position to a lower one; below.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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Open the full verse study26And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she being desolate shall sit upon the ground.
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Open the full verse study3In their streets they shall gird themselves with sackcloth: on the tops of their houses, and in their streets, every one shall howl, weeping abundantly.
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Open the full verse study12And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew him not, they lifted up their voice, and wept; and they rent every one his mantle, and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven.
13So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word unto him: for they saw that his grief was very great.
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Open the full verse study3And the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day, saith the Lord God: there shall be many dead bodies in every place; they shall cast them forth with silence.
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Open the full verse study18They shall also gird themselves with sackcloth, and horror shall cover them; and shame shall be upon all faces, and baldness upon all their heads.
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Open the full verse study1COME down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, sit on the ground: there is no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate.
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Open the full verse study6¶ And Joshua rent his clothes, and fell to the earth upon his face before the ark of the Lord until the eventide, he and the elders of Israel, and put dust upon their heads.
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Open the full verse study1HOW doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how is she become as a widow! she that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary!
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Open the full verse study4The 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.
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Open the full verse study28He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it upon him.
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Open the full verse study19¶ And Tamar put ashes on her head, and rent her garment of divers colours that was on her, and laid her hand on her head, and went on crying.
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Open the full verse study13Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time.
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Open the full verse study13In that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst.
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Open the full verse study31And they shall make themselves utterly bald for thee, and gird them with sackcloth, and they shall weep for thee with bitterness of heart and bitter wailing.
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Open the full verse study22¶ Then came Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, that was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder, to Hezekiah with their clothes rent, and told him the words of Rabshakeh.
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Open the full verse study5Sit thou silent, and get thee into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called, The lady of kingdoms.
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Open the full verse study14Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the defenced cities, and let us be silent there: for the Lord our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against the Lord.
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Open the full verse study8¶ Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.
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Open the full verse study16The anger of the Lord hath divided them; he will no more regard them: they respected not the persons of the priests, they favoured not the elders.
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Open the full verse study5They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.
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Open the full verse study12Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.
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Open the full verse study14The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.
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Open the full verse study19And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas, that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.
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