Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vines,
Cross References
Nahum 2:7It is decreed that the city be exiled and carried away; her maidservants moan like doves, and beat upon their breasts.
Isaiah 32:13and for the land of my people, overgrown with thorns and briers--even for every house of merriment in this city of revelry.
Treasury of Scripture
They shall lament for the teats, for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.
lament
Lamentations 2:11
Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.
Lamentations 4:3,4
Even the sea monsters draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones: the daughter of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness…
pleasant fields.
Deuteronomy 8:7,8
For the LORD thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills; …
Deuteronomy 11:11,12
But the land, whither ye go to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven: …
Ezekiel 20:6,15
In the day that I lifted up mine hand unto them, to bring them forth of the land of Egypt into a land that I had espied for them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands: …
