Lamentations 2:12

They say to their mothers, “Where is grain and wine?” 1 as they faint like a wounded man in the streets of the city, 1 their lives are poured out on the bosom of their mothers. 1

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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

11My eyes have failed from their tears; my stomach churns; 1 my inner parts are poured out to the ground because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, 1 children and infants faint in the streets of the city. 1

13What can I say to you, daughter of Jerusalem? 1 To what can I compare to you, that I may comfort you, virgin daughter of Zion? 1 Your wound is as great as the sea. Who can heal you? 1

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Cross References

Isaiah 51:20Your sons have fainted; they lie at every street corner, like an antelope in a net; 1 they are filled with the anger of Yahweh, the rebuke of your God. 1

Lamentations 1:11All her people groan as they search for bread. 1 They have given their precious treasures for food to restore their lives. 1 Look, Yahweh, and consider me, for I have become worthless. 1

Ezekiel 30:24I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon and place my sword in his hand so that I might destroy Pharaoh's arms. He will groan before the king of Babylon with the groans of a dying man.

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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