Lamentations 2:10
“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.”
King James Version (KJV)
🌐 Lamentations 2:10 in 8 Translations
King James Version (KJV)English
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.
American Standard Version (ASV)English
The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, they 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.
Open English Bible (OEB)English
Elberfelder Bibel (ELB)Deutsch
Verstummt sitzen auf der Erde die Ältesten der Tochter Zion; sie haben Staub auf ihr Haupt geworfen, Sacktuch sich umgegürtet; die Jungfrauen Jerusalems haben ihr Haupt zur Erde gesenkt.
Reina-Valera (RV)Español
Sentáronse en tierra, callaron los ancianos de la hija de Sión; echaron polvo sobre sus cabezas, ciñéronse de saco; las vírgenes de Jerusalem bajaron sus cabezas á tierra.
Bíblia Livre (BL)Português
Sentados na terra e calados estão os anciãos da filha de Sião; lançaram pó sobre suas cabeças, vestiram-se de saco; as virgens de Jerusalém baixaram suas cabeças à terra.
Nova Versão (NVA)Português
Os anciãos da filha de Sião se sentam no chão e choram silenciosamente. Eles atiraram terra em suas cabeças e se vestiram de sacos. As virgens de Jerusalém abaixam suas cabeças para o chão.
📖 Lamentations 2:10 in Context
8The Lord hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion: he hath stretched out a line, he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying: therefore he made the rampart and the wall to lament; they languished together.
9Her gates are sunk into the ground; he hath destroyed and broken her bars: her king and her princes are among the Gentiles: the law is no more; her prophets also find no vision from the Lord.
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.
11Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.
12They say to their mothers, Where is corn and wine? when they swooned as the wounded in the streets of the city, when their soul was poured out into their mothers’ bosom.
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