Lamentations 2:20

Look, Hashem, and consider 1 to whom Thou hast done this. 1 Shall the nashim eat their offspring, 1 the children they have cared for? 1 Shall the Kohen and the Navi 1 be slain in the Mikdash Adonoi? 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

Behold, O LORD, and consider to whom thou hast done this. Shall the women eat their fruit, and children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?

In Context

19Arise, cry out balailah; 1 in the beginning of the night watches 1 pour out thine lev like mayim 1 before the face of Adonoi; 1 lift up thy hands to Him 1 for the nefesh of thy ollelim, 1 that faint for hunger on every street corner. 1

21The na'ar and the zaken lie 1 in the dust of the streets; 1 my betulot and my bochurim 1 are fallen by the cherev; 1 Thou hast slain them in the Day of Thy Wrath; 1 Thou hast slaughtered, and not pitied. 1

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Cross References

Exodus 32:11And Moshe besought Hashem Elohav, and said, Hashem, why doth Thy wrath burn hot against Thy people, which Thou hast brought forth out of Eretz Mitzrayim with ko'ach gadol, and with a yad chazakah?

Deuteronomy 9:26I davened therefore unto Hashem, and said, Adonoi Hashem, destroy not Thy people and Thine inheritance, which Thou hast redeemed through Thy greatness, which Thou hast brought forth out of Mitzrayim with a yad chazakah.

2 Kings 6:28And HaMelech said unto her, What troubleth thee? And she answered, This isha said unto me, Give thy ben, that we may eat him hayom (today), and we will eat beni (my son) machar (tomorrow).

Psalms 78:64Their kohanim fell by the cherev; 1 and their almanot made no lamentation. 1

Isaiah 63:16Doubtless Thou art Avinu, 1 though Avraham not have da'as of us, 1 and Yisroel not acknowledge us; 1 Thou, Hashem, art Avinu, Go'aleinu; 1 Shemecha is from everlasting. 1

Jeremiah 5:31The nevi'im prophesy falsely, 1 and the kohanim rule at their direction; 1 and My people love to have it this way; 1 but what will ye do in the end?

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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