Lamentations 2:20

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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 compassionate women have boiled their own children; they became their food during the destruction of the daughter of my people.

You shall eat the flesh of your sons, and you shall eat the flesh of your daughters.

And you shall eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of your sons and daughters, whom the LORD your God has given you, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemies shall distress you.

And the king asked her, "What is your trouble?" She answered, "This woman said to me, 'Give your son, that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.'

And I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and their daughters, and everyone shall eat the flesh of his neighbor in the siege and in the distress, with which their enemies and those who seek their life afflict them.'

Therefore fathers shall eat their sons in your midst, and sons shall eat their fathers. And I will execute judgments on you, and any of you who survive I will scatter to all the winds.

Of a span long

"I called to my lovers, but they deceived me; my priests and elders perished in the city, while they sought food to revive their strength.

This was for the sins of her prophets and the iniquities of her priests, who shed in the midst of her the blood of the righteous.

Their priests fell by the sword, and their widows made no lamentation.

So the LORD cut off from Israel head and tail, palm branch and reed in one day--

the prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule at their direction; my people love to have it so, but what will you do when the end comes?

Therefore thus says the LORD concerning the prophets who prophesy in my name although I did not send them, and who say, 'Sword and famine shall not come upon this land': By sword and famine those prophets shall be consumed.

"Both prophet and priest are ungodly; even in my house I have found their evil, declares the LORD.

And to the others he said in my hearing, "Pass through the city after him, and strike. Your eye shall not spare, and you shall show no pity.

General references

until the LORD from heaven looks down and sees;

Princes are hung up by their hands; no respect is shown to the elders.

And alas for women who are pregnant and for those who are nursing infants in those days!