“In their streets, they clothe themselves in sackcloth. In their streets and on their housetops, everyone wails, weeping abundantly.”
— WEB
Isaiah 15:3
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“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.”
— KJV
“In their streets they gird themselves with sackcloth; on their housetops, and in their broad places, every one waileth, weeping abundantly.”
— ASV
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Commentary
tops of . . . houses--flat; places of resort for prayer, &c., in the East (Act 10:9). weeping abundantly--"melting away in tears." HORSLEY prefers "descending to weep." Thus there is a "parallelism by alternate construction" [LOWTH], or chiasmus; "howl" refers to "tops of houses." "Descending to weep" to "streets" or squares, whither they descend from the housetops.
— Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (public domain)
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