Lamentations 2:21

The 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

Orthodox Jewish Bible

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

20Look, 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

22Thou hast summoned as in a Yom Mo'ed 1 my terrors all around, 1 so that in the Yom Af Hashem 1 none escaped nor remained; 1 those that I have swaddled and reared 1 hath mine oyev consumed.

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Cross References

Joshua 6:21And they utterly destroyed + 6:21 devoted as cherem all that was in the Ir, both ish and isha, na'ar and zaken, and shor, and seh, and chamor, with the edge of the cherev.

2 Chronicles 36:17Therefore He brought upon them Melech Kasdim, who slaughtered their bochurim with the cherev in their Beis Mikdash, and had no pity upon bochur or betulah, zaken or the aged man. He gave them all into his yad.

Psalms 78:62He gave His people over also unto the cherev; 1 and was in wrath with His nachalah. 1

Jeremiah 4:31For I have heard a kol (outcry) like that of a woman in travail, 1 and in labor pain like that of her that bringeth forth her first child, 1 the voice of Bat Tziyon, that waileth, 1 that stretcheth out her hands, saying: 1 Oy nah li (Woe is me now)! For my nefesh 1 is weary because of murderers.

Jeremiah 9:20For mavet (death) is come up into our windows, 1 and is entered into our fortresses, 1 to cut off the olal (children) from the street, 1 and the bochurim from the rechovot. 1

Jeremiah 11:22Therefore thus saith Hashem Tzva'os, Look! I will punish them; the bochurim shall die by the cherev; their banim and their banot shall die by ra'av (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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