Lamentations 2:12

לְאִמֹּתָם יֹֽאמְרוּ אַיֵּה דָּגָן וָיָיִן בְּהִֽתְעַטְּפָם כֶּֽחָלָל בִּרְחֹבוֹת עִיר בְּהִשְׁתַּפֵּךְ נַפְשָׁם אֶל ־ חֵיק אִמֹּתָֽם ׃ ס

Hebrew Tanakh (Original)

In The King James Version

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

11כָּלוּ בַדְּמָעוֹת עֵינַי חֳמַרְמְרוּ מֵעַי נִשְׁפַּךְ לָאָרֶץ כְּבֵדִי עַל ־ שֶׁבֶר בַּת ־ עַמִּי בֵּֽעָטֵף עוֹלֵל וְיוֹנֵק בִּרְחֹבוֹת קִרְיָֽה ׃ ס

13מָֽה ־ אֲעִידֵךְ מָה אֲדַמֶּה ־ לָּךְ הַבַּת יְרוּשָׁלִַם מָה אַשְׁוֶה ־ לָּךְ וַאֲנַֽחֲמֵךְ בְּתוּלַת בַּת ־ צִיּוֹן כִּֽי ־ גָדוֹל כַּיָּם שִׁבְרֵךְ מִי יִרְפָּא ־ לָֽךְ ׃ ס

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Cross References

Isaiah 51:20בָּנַיִךְ עֻלְּפוּ שָׁכְבוּ בְּרֹאשׁ כָּל ־ חוּצוֹת כְּתוֹא מִכְמָר הַֽמְלֵאִים חֲמַת ־ יְהוָה גַּעֲרַת אֱלֹהָֽיִךְ ׃

Lamentations 1:11כָּל ־ עַמָּהּ נֶאֱנָחִים מְבַקְּשִׁים לֶחֶם נָתְנוּ מחמודיהם בְּאֹכֶל לְהָשִׁיב נָפֶשׁ רְאֵה יְהוָה וְֽהַבִּיטָה כִּי הָיִיתִי זוֹלֵלָֽה ׃ ס

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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