Lamentations 2:20

See, Yahweh, and consider those you have dealt in this way. 1 Should women eat the fruit of their wombs, the children whom they have cared for? 1 Should priest and prophet be slaughtered in the sanctuary of the Lord? 1

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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 in the night, at the beginning of the night watches! 1 Pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord. 1 Lift up your hands to him for the lives of your children who faint with hunger at the corner of every street.” 1

21Both the young and the old lie on the dust of the streets. 1 My young women and my young men have fallen by the sword; 1 you have slaughtered them without taking pity on them. 1

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Cross References

Exodus 32:11But Moses tried to calm down Yahweh his God. He said, “Yahweh, why does your anger burn against your people, whom you have brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?

Deuteronomy 9:26I prayed to Yahweh and said, 'O Lord Yahweh, do not destroy your people or your inheritance whom you have redeemed through your greatness, which you have brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand.

2 Kings 6:28The king continued, “What is troubling you?” She answered, “This woman said to me, 'Give your son so that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.'”

Psalms 78:64Their priests fell by the sword, 1 and their widows could not weep. 1

Isaiah 63:16For you are our father, 1 though Abraham does not know us, and Israel does not recognize us, 1 you, Yahweh, are our father. 'Our Redeemer' has been your name from ancient times. 1

Jeremiah 5:31The prophets prophesy with deceit, and the priests rule with their own power. 1 My people love it this way, but what will happen 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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