Isaiah 15:3
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In their streets they are girded with sackcloth: on the tops of their houses, and in their streets all shall howl and come down weeping.

their streets

2 Samuel 3:31 And David said to Joab, and to all the people that were with him: Rend your garments, and gird yourselves with sackcloths, and mourn before the funeral of Abner. And king David himself followed the bier.

2 Kings 6:30 When the king heard this, he rent his garments, and passed by upon the wall. And all the people saw the haircloth which he wore within next to his flesh.

Jonah 3:6-8 And the men of Ninive believed in God: and they proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth from the greatest to the least. . . .

Matthew 11:21 Woe thee, Corozain, woe to thee, Bethsaida: for if in Tyre and Sidon had been wrought the miracles that have been wrought in you, they had long ago done penance in sackcloth and ashes.

on the

Isaiah 15:2 The house is gone up, and Dibon to the high places to mourn over Nabo, and over Medaba, Moab hath howled: on all their heads shall be baldness, and every beard shall be shaven.

Isaiah 22:1 The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee also, that thou too art wholly gone up to the housetops?

Deuteronomy 22:8 When thou buildest a new house, thou shalt make a battlement to the roof round about: lest blood be shed in thy house, and thou be guilty, if any one slip, and fall down headlong.

Jeremiah 19:13 And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Juda shall be unclean as the place of Topheth: all the houses upon whose roofs they have sacrificed to all the host of heaven, and have poured out drink offerings to strange gods.

Jeremiah 48:38,39 Upon all the housetops of Moab, and in the streets thereof general mourning: because I have broken Moab as an useless vessel, saith the Lord. . . .

weeping abundantly.

Isaiah 15:5 My heart shall cry to Moab, the bars thereof shall flee unto Segor a heifer of three years old: for by the ascent of Luith they shall go up weeping: and in the way of Oronaim they shall lift up a cry of destruction.

Context
An Oracle Concerning Moab
2The house is gone up, and Dibon to the high places to mourn over Nabo, and over Medaba, Moab hath howled: on all their heads shall be baldness, and every beard shall be shaven. 3In their streets they are girded with sackcloth: on the tops of their houses, and in their streets all shall howl and come down weeping.4Hesebon shall cry, and Eleale, their voice is heard even to Jasa. For this shall the well appointed men of Moab howl, his soul shall howl to itself.…
Cross References
James 5:1
Go to now, ye rich men: weep and howl in your miseries, which shall come upon you.

1 Samuel 5:12
For there was the fear of death in every city, and the hand of God was exceeding heavy. The men also that did not die, were afflicted with the emerods: and the cry of every city went up to heaven.

Isaiah 3:24
And instead of a sweet smell there shall be stench, and instead of a girdle, a cord, and instead of curled hair, baldness, and instead of a stomacher, haircloth.

Isaiah 22:1
The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee also, that thou too art wholly gone up to the housetops?

Isaiah 22:4
Therefore have I said: Depart from me, I will weep bitterly: labour not to comfort me, for the devastation of the daughter of my people.

Jeremiah 48:37
For every head shall be bald, and every beard shall be shaven: all hands shall be tied together, and upon every back there shall be haircloth.

Jeremiah 48:38
Upon all the housetops of Moab, and in the streets thereof general mourning: because I have broken Moab as an useless vessel, saith the Lord.

Lamentations 2:10
Jod. The ancients of the daughter of Sion sit upon the ground, they have held their peace: they have sprinkled their heads with dust, they are girded with haircloth, the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.

Ezekiel 7:18
And they shall gird themselves with haircloth, and fear shall cover them and shame shall be upon every face, and baldness upon all their heads.

Amos 8:10
And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord God, that the sun shall go down at midday, and I will make the earth dark in the day of light:

Jonah 3:6
And the men of Ninive believed in God: and they proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth from the greatest to the least.

Lexicon
In its streets
בְּחוּצֹתָ֖יו (bə·ḥū·ṣō·ṯāw)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2351: Separate by a, wall, outside, outdoors

they wear
חָ֣גְרוּ (ḥā·ḡə·rū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 2296: To gird, gird on, gird oneself

sackcloth;
שָׂ֑ק (śāq)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 8242: A mesh, coarse loose cloth, sacking, a bag

on
עַ֣ל (‘al)
Preposition
Strong's Hebrew 5921: Above, over, upon, against

the rooftops
גַּגּוֹתֶ֧יהָ (gag·gō·w·ṯe·hā)
Noun - masculine plural construct | third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1406: A roof, the top of an altar

and in the public squares
וּבִרְחֹבֹתֶ֛יהָ (ū·ḇir·ḥō·ḇō·ṯe·hā)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-b | Noun - masculine plural construct | third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7339: A broad open place, plaza

they all
כֻּלֹּ֥ה (kul·lōh)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3605: The whole, all, any, every

wail,
יְיֵלִ֖יל (yə·yê·lîl)
Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3213: To howl, make a howling

falling down
יֹרֵ֥ד (yō·rêḏ)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3381: To come or go down, descend

weeping.
בַּבֶּֽכִי׃ (bab·be·ḵî)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1065: A weeping, a dripping


Additional Translations
In its streets they wear sackcloth; on the rooftops and in the public squares they all wail, falling down weeping.In their streets they shall gird themselves with sackcloth: on the tops of their houses, and in their streets, every one shall howl, weeping abundantly.

In their streets they gird themselves with sackcloth; on their housetops, and in their broad places, every one waileth, weeping abundantly.

Gird yourselves with sackcloth in her streets: and lament upon her roofs, and in her streets, and in her ways; howl all of you with weeping.

In their streets they are girded with sackcloth; on their roofs, and in their broadways, every one howleth, melted into tears.

In their streets they gird themselves with sackcloth: on their housetops, and in their broad places, every one howleth, weeping abundantly.

In their streets they shall gird themselves with sackcloth: on the tops of their houses, and in their streets, every one shall howl, weeping abundantly.

In their streets, they clothe themselves in sackcloth. In their streets and on their housetops, everyone wails, weeping abundantly.

In its out-places they girded on sackcloth, On its pinnacles, and in its broad places, Every one howleth -- going down with weeping.
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