Lamentations 2:22

Thou 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.

Orthodox Jewish Bible

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 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

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.

Isaiah 24:17Pachad (fear), and the pachat (pit), and the pach (pitfall, snare), 1 are upon thee, O inhabitant of Ha'Aretz. 1

Jeremiah 14:19Hast Thou utterly rejected Yehudah? 1 Hath Thy nefesh loathed Tziyon? 1 Why hast Thou afflicted us, 1 and there is no healing for us? 1 We hoped for shalom, and there is no tov; 1 and for the time of healing, and hinei terror! 1

Jeremiah 20:3And it came to pass on the next day, that Pashchur brought forth Yirmeyah out of the stocks. Then said Yirmeyah unto him, Hashem hath not called thy shem Pashchur, but Magor Missaviv (Terror on Every Side).

Jeremiah 46:5What do I see? They are filled with terror and retreat! 1 And their gibborim are beaten down, 1 and are fled speedily, and look not back; 1 for fear was all around, saith Hashem. 1

Hosea 9:13Ephrayim, as I saw Tzor, 1 is planted in a pleasant place; 1 but Ephrayim shall bring forth 1 his banim to the murderer. 1

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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