Lamentations 2:21

The child and old man 1 Have lain down in the street: 1 My virgins and my young men 1 Are gone into captivity: 1 Thou hast slain them 1 With the sword and with famine; 1 In the day of thy wrath thou hast mangled them, 1 Thou hast not spared. 1

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

The young and the old lie on the ground in the streets: my virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword; thou hast slain them in the day of thine anger; thou hast killed, and not pitied.

In Context

20Behold, O Lord, 1 And see for whom thou hast gathered thus. 1 Shall the women eat the fruit of their womb? 1 The cook has made a gathering: 1 Shall the infants sucking at the breasts be slain? 1 Wilt thou slay the priest and prophet 1 In the sanctuary of the Lord? 1

22He has called my sojourners round about 1 To a solemn day, 1 And there was not in the day of the wrath of the Lord 1 Anyone that escaped or was left; 1 Whereas I have strengthened and multiplied all mine enemies.

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Cross References

Joshua 6:21and Joshua devoted it to destruction, and all things that were in the city, man and woman, young man and old, and calf and ass, with the edge of the sword.

2 Chronicles 36:17And he brought against them the king of the Chaldeans, and slew their young men with the sword in the house of his sanctuary, and did not spare Zedekiah, and had no mercy upon their virgins, and they led away their old men: he delivered all things into their hands.

Jeremiah 4:31For I have heard thy groaning as the voice of a woman in travail, as of her that brings forth her first child; the voice of the daughter of Zion shall fail through weakness, and she shall lose the strength of her hands, saying, Woe is me! for my soul faints because of the slain.

Jeremiah 9:20For death has come up through your windows, it has entered into our land, to destroy the infants without, and the young men from the streets.

Jeremiah 11:22behold, I will visit them: their young men shall die by the sword; and their sons and their daughters shall die of famine:

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 →

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