Isaiah 3:26
What does Isaiah 3:26 mean?
A plain-English look at Isaiah 3:26 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she shall be desolate and sit upon the ground.
KJV
King James Version · 1611And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she being desolate shall sit upon the ground.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she shall be desolate and sit upon the ground.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949And in the public places of her towns will be sorrow and weeping; and she will be seated on the earth, waste and uncovered.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862And lamented and mourned have her openings, Yea, she hath been emptied, on the earth she sitteth!
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752And her gates shall lament and mourn, and she shall sit desolate on the ground.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890and her gates shall lament and mourn; and, stripped, she shall sit upon the ground.
Context
v.25Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the war.
v.26This passage
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Ezekiel 26:16
Then all the princes of the sea shall come down from their thrones, and lay aside their robes, and strip off their broidered garments: they shall clothe themselves with trembling; they shall sit upon the ground, and shall tremble every moment, and be astonished at thee.
- Luke 19:44
and shall dash thee to the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.
- Lamentations 1:4
The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn assembly; All her gates are desolate, her priests do sigh: Her virgins are afflicted, and she herself is in bitterness.
- Lamentations 2:10
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.
- Jeremiah 14:2
Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish, they sit in black upon the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.
- Isaiah 47:1
Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon; sit on the ground without a throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate.
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