Lam 2:10

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elders.

Lam 4:5; Lam 4:16; Lam 5:12; Lam 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 {Jud� capta.}

Lam 1:1

and keep.

Lam 3:28; Jer 8:14; Amos 5:13; Amos 8:3

cast up.

Josh 7:6; 2Sam 13:19; Job 2:12; Rev 18:19

they have girded.

Isa 15:3; Isa 36:22; Ezek 7:18; Ezek 27:31; Joel 1:8

the virgins.

Lam 1:4; Amos 8:13