Lamentations 2:12

They say to their imahot: 1 Where is grain and yayin? 1 Say they when they swooned like the wounded 1 in the rechovot Ir, 1 when their nefesh ebbed away 1 into the kheyk imahot of them. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

They say to their mothers, Where is corn and wine? when they swooned as the wounded in the streets of the city, when their soul was poured out into their mothers’ bosom.

In Context

11Mine eyes do fail from weepings, 1 my insides are troubled, 1 empty and poured upon ha'aretz, 1 for the destruction of Bat Ami; 1 because the olel and the infant 1 swoon in the rechovot of the city. 1

13What thing shall I say to thee? 1 What thing shall I liken to thee, O Bat Yerushalayim? 1 What shall I equal to thee, that I may comfort thee, 1 O Betulat Bat Tziyon? 1 For thy shever (destruction) is as gadol as the yam. 1 Who can heal thee? 1

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Cross References

Isaiah 51:20Thy banim have fainted, they lie at the rosh of all the streets, 1 like a wild bull in a net; 1 they are full of the chamat Hashem, 1 the rebuke of thy G-d. 1

Lamentations 1:11All her people sigh, they seek lechem; 1 they have given their precious things 1 for bread to revive the nefesh; 1 see, O Hashem, and consider 1 that I am become despised. 1

Ezekiel 30:24And I will strengthen the zero'ot (arms) of Melech Bavel, and put My cherev in his yad; but I will break the zero'ot of Pharaoh, and he shall groan before him with the groanings of the mortally wounded.

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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