Parallel Verses

Bible in Basic English

And in the public places of her towns will be sorrow and weeping; and she will be seated on the earth, waste and uncovered.

New American Standard Bible

And her gates will lament and mourn,
And deserted she will sit on the ground.

King James Version

And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she being desolate shall sit upon the ground.

Holman Bible

Then her gates will lament and mourn;
deserted, she will sit on the ground.


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International Standard Version

and her gates lament and mourn. Ravaged, she will sit on the ground."

A Conservative Version

And her gates shall lament and mourn, and she shall be desolate and sit upon the ground.

American Standard Version

And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she shall be desolate and sit upon the ground.

Amplified


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.

Darby Translation

and her gates shall lament and mourn; and, stripped, she shall sit upon the ground.

Julia Smith Translation

And her entrances sighed and mourned; and being clean, she shall sit upon the earth.

King James 2000

And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she being desolate shall sit upon the ground.

Lexham Expanded Bible

And her gates shall lament and mourn, and she shall be banished; she shall sit upon the ground.

Modern King James verseion

And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she shall sit deserted on the ground.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

At that time shall their gates mourn and complain, and they shall sit as desolate folk upon the earth.

NET Bible

Her gates will mourn and lament; deprived of her people, she will sit on the ground.

New Heart English Bible

Her gates shall lament and mourn; and she shall be desolate and sit on the ground.

The Emphasized Bible

And her gates shall mourn and lament, - And forsaken, on the ground, shah she sit.

Webster

And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she being desolate, shall sit upon the ground.

World English Bible

Her gates shall lament and mourn; and she shall be desolate and sit on the ground.

Youngs Literal Translation

And lamented and mourned have her openings, Yea, she hath been emptied, on the earth she sitteth!

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
פּתח 
Pethach 
Usage: 164

אנה 
'anah 
Usage: 2

and mourn
H56
אבל 
'abal 
Usage: 39

ישׁב 
Yashab 
Usage: 1081

References

Fausets

Watsons

Context Readings

The Pride Of Jerusalem's Women

25 Your men will be put to the sword, and your men of war will come to destruction in the fight. 26 And in the public places of her towns will be sorrow and weeping; and she will be seated on the earth, waste and uncovered.

Cross References

Jeremiah 14:2

Judah is weeping and its doors are dark with sorrow, and people are seated on the earth clothed in black; and the cry of Jerusalem has gone up.

Lamentations 2:10

The responsible men of the daughter of Zion are seated on the earth without a word; they have put dust on their heads, they are clothed in haircloth: the heads of the virgins of Jerusalem are bent down to the earth.

Lamentations 1:4

The ways of Zion are sad, because no one comes to the holy meeting; all her doorways are made waste, her priests are breathing out sorrow: her virgins are troubled, and it is bitter for her.

Job 2:13

And they took their seats on the earth by his side for seven days and seven nights: but no one said a word to him, for they saw that his pain was very great.

Job 2:8

And he took a broken bit of a pot, and, seated in the dust, was rubbing himself with the sharp edge of it.

Isaiah 47:1

Come and take your seat in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon; come down from your seat of power, and take your place on the earth, O daughter of the Chaldaeans: for you will never again seem soft and delicate.

Ezekiel 26:16

Then all the rulers of the sea will come down from their high seats, and put away their robes and take off their clothing of needlework: they will put on the clothing of grief, they will take their seats on the earth, shaking with fear every minute and overcome with wonder at you.

Luke 19:44

And will make you level with the earth, and your children with you; and there will not be one stone resting on another in you, because you did not see that it was your day of mercy.

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