Lamentations 2:10 Meaning and Explanation
“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)
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What Does Lamentations 2:10 Mean?
The elders, who once sat in honor at the city gate to judge and counsel, now sit upon the bare ground in silence. They have thrown dust on their heads and put on sackcloth, the ancient garments of mourning. The wise have no words left; their silence is itself a kind of speech, the speech of grief too deep for counsel.
The young women, who should be full of life and song, hang their heads to the ground. From the oldest to the youngest, the whole city has bowed under the same sorrow. The verse paints a tableau of a people prostrate, and there is a strange dignity in it. This is grief done rightly, in the dust before God, refusing to pretend that all is well.
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What does Lamentations 2:10 mean?
The elders sit silent on the ground in dust and sackcloth, and the young women bow their heads in grief.