Lamentations 2:22

He 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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In The King James Version

Thou hast called as in a solemn day my terrors round about, so that in the day of the LORD’S anger none escaped nor remained: those that I have swaddled and brought up hath mine enemy consumed.

In Context

21The 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

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Cross References

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.

Isaiah 24:17Fear, and a pit, and a snare, are upon you that dwell on the earth.

Jeremiah 14:19Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? and has thy soul departed from Zion? wherefore hast thou smitten us, and there is no healing for us? we waited for peace, but there was no prosperity; for a time of healing, and behold trouble!

Jeremiah 20:3And Pashhur brought Jeremiah out of the dungeon: and Jeremiah said to him, The Lord has not called thy name Pashhur, but Exile.

Hosea 9:13Ephraim, even as I saw, gave their children for a prey; yea, Ephraim was ready to bring out his children to slaughter.

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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