Lamentations 2:12
They said to their mothers, 1 Where is corn and wine? 1 While they fainted like wounded men 1 In the streets of the city, 1 While their souls were poured out 1 Into their mother’s bosom. 1
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Isaiah 51:20Thy sons are the perplexed ones, that sleep at the top of every street as a half-boiled beet; they that are full of the anger of the Lord, caused to faint by the Lord God.
Lamentations 1:11All her people groan, 1 Seeking bread: 1 They have given their desirable things for meat, 1 To restore their soul: 1 Behold, Lord, and look; 1 For she is become dishonored. 1
Ezekiel 30:24And I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and put my sword into his hand: and he shall bring it upon Egypt, and shall take her plunder and seize her spoils.
Matthew Henry on Lamentations 2:11-22
Complicated Sorrows. ( b. c. 588.) 10 The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, and keep silence: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground. 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. 12 They say to their mothers, Where is corn… Read the whole commentary →