19 Women who had recently been arrayed for marriage left their bridal chambers, left the reserve that befitted them, and ran around the city in a disorderly manner. (WEB)
3 Maccabees 1:19
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2 Maccabees 3:18–20
18 Those who were in the houses rushed out in crowds to make a universal supplication, because the place was about to come into dishonor. (WEB) 19 The women, girded with sackcloth under their breasts, thronged the streets. The virgins who were kept indoors ran together, s… (WEB)
3 Maccabees 4:5–7
5 A multitude of aged hoary-haired old men were driven along with halting bending feet, urged onward by the impulse of a violent, shameless force to quick speed. (WEB) 6 Girls who had entered the bridal chamber quite lately, to enjoy the partnership of marriage, exchang… (WEB)
1 Maccabees 1:26–28
26 The rulers and elders groaned. The virgins and young men were made feeble. The beauty of the women was changed. (WEB) 27 Every bridegroom took up lamentation. She who sat in the marriage chamber was mourning. (WEB) 28 The land was moved for its inhabitants, and all the house of… (WEB)
2 Maccabees 6:3–5
3 The visitation of this evil was harsh and utterly grievous. (WEB) 4 For the temple was filled with debauchery and reveling by the heathen, who dallied with prostitutes, and had intercourse with women within the sacred precincts, and moreover brought inside things that… (WEB)
1 Maccabees 13:43–45
43 In those days Simon encamped against Gazara, and surrounded it with troops. He made a siege engine, and brought it up to the city, and struck a tower, and captured it. (WEB) 44 Those who were in the engine leaped out into the city; and there was a great uproar in the c… (WEB)
1 Maccabees 1:37–39
37 They shed innocent blood on every side of the sanctuary, and defiled the sanctuary. (WEB) 38 The inhabitants of Jerusalem fled because of them. She became a habitation of foreigners. She became foreign to those who were born in her, and her children forsook her. (WEB) 39 Her san… (WEB)
Lamentations 5:10–12
10 Our skin is as hot as an oven with fever from our hunger. 11 Women have been ravished in Zion, virgins in the cities of Judah. 12 Princes have been hung up by their hands; elders receive no respect.
2 Samuel 19:2–4
2 And that day’s victory was turned into mourning for all the people, because on that day they were told, “The king is grieving over his son.” 3 So they returned to the city quietly that day, as people steal away in humiliation after fleeing a battle. 4 But the king…
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