Lamentations 2:20

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Summary

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?

Shall the women

Of a span long

General references

Lamentations 3:50

Lamentations 5:12

Mark 13:17

Bible References

Shall the women

The hands of kind-hearted women have been boiling their children; they were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Then you will take the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters for food;

And your food will be the fruit of your body, the flesh of the sons and daughters which the Lord your God has given you; because of your bitter need and the cruel grip of your haters.

And the king said to her, What is troubling you? And she said in answer, This woman said to me, Give your son to be our food today, and we will have my son tomorrow.

I will make them take the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters for food, they will be making a meal of one another, because of their bitter need and the cruel grip of their haters and those who have made designs against their life.

For this cause fathers will take their sons for food among you, and sons will make a meal of their fathers; and I will be judge among you, and all the rest of you I will send away to every wind.

Of a span long

I sent for my lovers, but they were false to me: my priests and my responsible men were breathing their last breath in the town, while they were looking for food to give them new life.

It is because of the sins of her prophets and the evil-doing of her priests, by whom the blood of the upright has been drained out in her.

Their priests were put to death by the sword, and their widows made no weeping for them.

For this cause the Lord took away from Israel head and tail, high and low, in one day.

The prophets give false words and the priests give decisions by their direction; and my people are glad to have it so: and what will you do in the end?

So this is what the Lord has said about the prophets who make use of my name, though I sent them not, and say, The sword and need of food will not be in this land: the sword and need of food will put an end to those prophets.

For the prophet as well as the priest is unclean; even in my house I have seen their evil-doing, says the Lord.

And to these he said in my hearing, Go through the town after him using your axes: do not let your eyes have mercy, and have no pity:

General references

Till the Lord's eye is turned on me, till he sees my trouble from heaven.

Their hands put princes to death by hanging: the faces of old men were not honoured.

And it will be hard for women who are with child and for her who has a baby at the breast in those days.