Study it in the app“For a sound of wailing is heard from Zion: ‘How we are devastated! We are greatly ashamed, for we have left the land, for they have cast down our dwellings.’””
Forכִּיa soundקוֹלof wailingנְהִיis heardנִשְׁמַעfrom Zion:מִצִּיּוֹן‘Howאֵיךְwe are devastated!שֻׁדָּדְנוּWe are greatlyמְאֹדashamed,בֹּשְׁנוּforכִּיwe have leftעָזַבְנוּthe land,אָרֶץforכִּיthey have cast downהִשְׁלִיכוּour dwellings.’”מִשְׁכְּנוֹתֵינוּ
sound
What is heard: a noise, a sound or a din.
Where else “kol” appearslament
Lament: a song of mourning for someone who has died or for a disaster.
Where else “nehi” appearshear
To hear a sound, or learn of something.
Where else “nishma” appearsZion
See it on the mapWhere else “tsiyon” appearsdevastate
To leave a country or city empty and in ruins by force.
Where else “shudadnu” appearsvery
To a very high degree: the word that adds force to what is said.
Where else “meod” appearsbe ashamed
To feel disgrace and distress over something bad one did or that befell him.
Where else “boshnu” appearsleave
To not take something along, or put it in another's care.
Where else “azavnu” appearsland
A region or nation, above all Israel's.
Where else “arets” appearsthrow
To throw something with force, far off or down.
Where else “hishlichu” appearshome
The house or place where someone lives.
Where else “mishknote” appearsZion
Today: Mount Zion hill, Jerusalem
A hill in Jerusalem; it first named the fortress David captured, and later sometimes the whole city.
David captured the stronghold of Zion and called it the city of David (2 Sam 5:7). The Psalms and prophets call it the place where God lives among his people (Ps 48:2).
18and let them hurry and raise over us a wailing, that our eyes may run down with tears and our eyelids flow with water.
19 · This verse (above)
20Now hear, women, the word of YHWH, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth; and teach your daughters a wailing, and each woman her companion a lament.
