Lamentations 2:10 (KJV)

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The 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

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elders. La 4:5 La 4:16 La 5:12 La 5:14 Job 2:13 Isa 3:26 Isa 47:1 Isa 47:5

sit.Sitting on the ground was a posture of mourning and deep distress. Hence the coin struck by Vespasian, on the capture of Jerusalem, has on the obverse side a palm tree, the emblem of Judea, and under it a woman, the emblem of Jerusalem, sitting down, with her elbow on her knee, and her head supported by her hand, with the legend {Judæa capta.} La 1:1

and keep. La 3:28 Jer 8:14 Am 5:13 Am 8:3

cast up. Jos 7:6 2Sa 13:19 Job 2:12 Re 18:19

they have girded. Isa 15:3 Isa 36:22 Eze 7:18 Eze 27:31 Joe 1:8

the virgins. La 1:4 Am 8:13

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