Isaiah 3:26

     26. gates—The place of concourse personified is represented mourning for the loss of those multitudes which once frequented it.

      desolate . . . sit upon . . . ground—the very figure under which Judea was represented on medals after the destruction by Titus: a female sitting under a palm tree in a posture of grief; the motto, Judæa capta (Job 2:13; La 2:10, where, as here primarily, the destruction by Nebuchadnezzar is alluded to).

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