Lamentations 2:12

They tell their mothers, "Where is grain and wine?"When they faint as the wounded in the streets of the city,as their lives fade away in their mothers' bosom.MEM

New Heart English Bible

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

11My eyes are worn out from weeping, my stomach is churning.My heart is poured on the earth, because of the destruction of the daughter of my people,because the young children and the infants faint in the streets of the city.LAMED

13What shall I testify of you? What shall I liken to you, daughter of Jerusalem?What shall I compare to you, that I may comfort you, virgin daughter of Zion?For your ruin is great like the sea. Who can heal you?NUN

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Cross References

Isaiah 51:20Your sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as an antelope in a net; they are full of the wrath of the Lord, the rebuke of your God.

Lamentations 1:11All her people sigh, they seek bread;they have given their precious things for food to refresh the soul."Look, Lord, and see, for I am despised."LAMED

Ezekiel 30:24I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and put my sword in his hand: but I will break the arms of Pharaoh, and he shall groan before him with the groanings of a deadly wounded 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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