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Lamentations 2:22

You have summoned, as you would call the people to a feast day, my terrors on every side, on the day of the anger of Yahweh no one escaped or survived; 1 those I cared for and raised, 1 my enemy has destroyed.

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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

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

2 Chronicles 36:17So God brought on them the king of the Chaldeans, who killed their young men with the sword in the sanctuary, and had no compassion on young men or virgins, old men or the gray-haired. God gave them all into his hand.

Isaiah 24:17Terror, the pit, and the snare are upon you, inhabitants of the earth. 1

Jeremiah 14:19Have you completely rejected Judah? Do you hate Zion? 1 Why will you afflict us when there is no healing for us? We hoped for peace, but there was nothing good— 1 and for a time of healing, but see, there is only terror. 1

Jeremiah 20:3It happened on the next day that Pashhur brought Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then Jeremiah said to him, “Yahweh has not called your name Pashhur, but you are Magor Missabib.

Jeremiah 46:5What am I seeing here? They are filled with terror and are running away, for their soldiers are defeated. 1 They are running for safety and are not looking back. Terror is all around—this is Yahweh's declaration— 1

Hosea 9:13I have seen Ephraim, just like Tyre, planted in a meadow, 1 but Ephraim will bring out his children to someone who will slaughter them.” 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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