Isaiah 3:26
New International Version
The gates of Zion will lament and mourn; destitute, she will sit on the ground.

New Living Translation
The gates of Zion will weep and mourn. The city will be like a ravaged woman, huddled on the ground.

English Standard Version
And her gates shall lament and mourn; empty, she shall sit on the ground.

Berean Standard Bible
And the gates of Zion will lament and mourn; destitute, she will sit on the ground.

King James Bible
And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she being desolate shall sit upon the ground.

New King James Version
Her gates shall lament and mourn, And she being desolate shall sit on the ground.

New American Standard Bible
And her gates will lament and mourn, And she will sit deserted on the ground.

NASB 1995
And her gates will lament and mourn, And deserted she will sit on the ground.

NASB 1977
And her gates will lament and mourn; And deserted she will sit on the ground.

Legacy Standard Bible
And her gates will lament and mourn, And deserted she will sit on the ground.

Amplified Bible
And Jerusalem’s gates will lament (cry out in grief) and mourn [as those who wail for the dead]; And she, being ruined and desolate, will sit upon the ground.

Christian Standard Bible
Then her gates will lament and mourn; deserted, she will sit on the ground.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Then her gates will lament and mourn; deserted, she will sit on the ground.

American Standard Version
And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she shall be desolate and sit upon the ground.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And her gates shall howl in mourning, and her victory shall fall to the ground

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And the stores of your ornaments shall mourn, and thou shalt be left alone, and shalt be levelled with the ground.

Contemporary English Version
The city will mourn and sit in the dirt, emptied of its people.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And her gates shall lament and mourn, and she shall sit desolate on the ground.

English Revised Version
And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she shall be desolate and sit upon the ground.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
The gates of Zion will cry and grieve, and Zion will sit on the ground, exhausted.

Good News Translation
The city gates will mourn and cry, and the city itself will be like a woman sitting on the ground, stripped naked.

International Standard Version
and her gates lament and mourn. Ravaged, she will sit on the ground."

JPS Tanakh 1917
And her gates shall lament and mourn; And utterly bereft she shall sit upon the ground.

Literal Standard Version
And her openings have lamented and mourned, | Indeed, she has been emptied, she sits on the earth!”

Majority Standard Bible
And the gates of Zion will lament and mourn; destitute, she will sit on the ground.

New American Bible
Her gates will lament and mourn, as the city sits desolate on the ground.

NET Bible
Her gates will mourn and lament; deprived of her people, she will sit on the ground.

New Revised Standard Version
And her gates shall lament and mourn; ravaged, she shall sit upon the ground.

New Heart English Bible
Her gates shall lament and mourn; and she shall be desolate and sit on the ground.

Webster's Bible Translation
And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she being desolate, shall sit upon the ground.

World English Bible
Her gates shall lament and mourn. She shall be desolate and sit on the ground.

Young's Literal Translation
And lamented and mourned have her openings, Yea, she hath been emptied, on the earth she sitteth!

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Context
A Warning to Jerusalem
25Your men will fall by the sword, and your warriors in battle. 26And the gates of Zion will lament and mourn; destitute, she will sit on the ground.

Cross References
Matthew 11:17
We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we sang a dirge, and you did not mourn.'

Isaiah 6:11
Then I asked: "How long, O Lord?" And He replied: "Until the cities lie ruined and without inhabitant, until the houses are left unoccupied and the land is desolate and ravaged,

Isaiah 14:31
Wail, O gate! Cry out, O city! Melt away, all you Philistines! For a cloud of smoke comes from the north, and there are no stragglers in its ranks.

Isaiah 29:2
And I will constrain Ariel, and there will be mourning and lamentation; she will be like an altar hearth before Me.

Isaiah 33:9
The land mourns and languishes; Lebanon is ashamed and decayed. Sharon is like a desert; Bashan and Carmel shake off their leaves.

Isaiah 47:1
"Go down and sit in the dust, O Virgin Daughter of Babylon. Sit on the ground without a throne, O Daughter of Chaldea! For you will no longer be called tender or delicate.

Jeremiah 14:2
"Judah mourns and her gates languish. Her people wail for the land, and a cry goes up from Jerusalem.


Treasury of Scripture

And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she being desolate shall sit on the ground.

her gates

Jeremiah 14:2
Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish; they are black unto the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.

Lamentations 1:4
The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitterness.

desolate.

Isaiah 47:1
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: for thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate.

Job 2:8,13
And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat down among the ashes…

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.

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Isaiah 3
1. The great calamities which come by sin
10. The different rewards of the righteous and wicked
12. The oppression and covetousness of the rulers
16. The judgments which shall be for the pride of the women
25. The general desolation














Verse 26. - Her gates. The sudden change of person is common in Oriental poetry. Shall lament and mourn. On account of their destruction, which would be very complete (see Lamentations 1:4; Lamentations 2:9; Nehemiah 1:3; Nehemiah 2:13). Conquerors could not do more than break breaches in the walls of a town, but they carefully destroyed the gates. Being desolate; or, emptied - plundered of everything, and so far "cleansed" from her abominations. Shall sit upon the ground. In deep grief (see Job 2:13; and comp. Isaiah 47:1; Lamentations 2:10). So in the coin of Vespasian, the captive Judah (Judea capta) sits upon the ground.



Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
And the gates [of Zion]
פְּתָחֶ֑יהָ (pə·ṯā·ḥe·hā)
Noun - masculine plural construct | third person feminine singular
Strong's 6607: An opening, door, entrance way

will lament
וְאָנ֥וּ (wə·’ā·nū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 578: To groan

and mourn;
וְאָבְל֖וּ (wə·’ā·ḇə·lū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 56: To bewail

destitute,
וְנִקָּ֖תָה (wə·niq·qā·ṯāh)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Nifal - Conjunctive perfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 5352: To be, clean, to be bare, extirpated

she will sit
תֵּשֵֽׁב׃ (tê·šêḇ)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 3427: To sit down, to dwell, to remain, to settle, to marry

on the ground.
לָאָ֥רֶץ (lā·’ā·reṣ)
Preposition-l, Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 776: Earth, land


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