Treasury of Scripture
The elders of the daughter of Zion sit on the ground, and keep silence: they have cast up dust on their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.
elders
Lamentations 4:5,16 They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills...
Lamentations 5:12,14 Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honored...
Job 2:13 So they sat down with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spoke a word to him...
Isaiah 3:26 And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she being desolate shall sit on the ground.
Isaiah 47:1,5 Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, sit on the ground: there is no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans...
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 Judea capta
Lamentations 1:1 How does the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how is she become as a widow! she that was great among the nations...
and keep
Lamentations 3:28 He sits alone and keeps silence, because he has borne it on him.
Jeremiah 8:14 Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the defended cities, and let us be silent there...
Amos 5:13 Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time.
Amos 8:3 And the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day, said the Lord GOD: there shall be many dead bodies in every place...
cast up
Joshua 7:6 And Joshua rent his clothes, and fell to the earth on his face before the ark of the LORD until the eventide...
2 Samuel 13:19 And Tamar put ashes on her head, and rent her garment of divers colors that was on her, and laid her hand on her head...
Job 2:12 And 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...
Revelation 18:19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city...
they have girded
Isaiah 15:3 In their streets they shall gird themselves with sackcloth: on the tops of their houses, and in their streets, every one shall howl...
Isaiah 36:22 Then came Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, that was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder...
Ezekiel 7:18 They shall also gird themselves with sackcloth, and horror shall cover them; and shame shall be on all faces...
Ezekiel 27:31 And they shall make themselves utterly bald for you, and gird them with sackcloth...
Joel 1:8 Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.
the virgins
Lamentations 1:4 The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh...
Amos 8:13 In that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst.
Strong's Concordance
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. Topical Bible
Bent Bowed Cast Caused Clothed Daughter Dust Elders Girded Ground Haircloth Hang Heads Jerusalem Maidens Responsible Sackcloth Seated Silence Silent Sit Sprinkled Themselves Thrown Virgins Women ZionResources
Lamentations Chapter 2 Verse 10
Alphabetical: and are bowed Daughter dust elders girded ground have heads in Jerusalem of on put sackcloth silence silent sit sprinkled The their themselves they thrown to virgins with women young Zion
OT Prophets: Lamentations 2:10 The elders of the daughter of Zion (Lam. La Lm)