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 the compassionate women have boiled their own children: they were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

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

And you shall eat the fruit of your own body, the flesh of your sons and of your daughters, which the LORD your God has given you, in the siege, and in the distress, with which your enemies shall distress you:

And the king said unto her, What ails you? And she answered, This woman said unto me, Give your son, that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.

And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they shall eat everyone the flesh of his friend in the siege and distress, with which their enemies, and they that seek their lives, shall distress them.

Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of you, and the sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments on you, and the whole remnant of you will I scatter into all the winds.

Of a span long

I called for my lovers, but they deceived me: my priests and my elders died in the city, while they sought their food to relieve their souls.

For the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her,

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

Therefore the LORD will cut off from Israel head and tail, palm branch and reed, in one day.

The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their own power; and my people love to have it so: and what will you do in the end?

Therefore thus says the LORD concerning the prophets that prophesy in my name, and I sent them not, yet they say, Sword and famine shall not be in this land; By sword and famine shall those prophets be consumed.

For both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in my house have I found their wickedness, says the LORD.

And to the others he said in my hearing, Go you after him through the city, and kill: let not your eye spare, neither have you pity:

General references

Till the LORD looks down, and beholds from heaven.

Princes were hung up by their hands: the faces of elders were not honored.

But woe to them that are with child, and to them that nurse children in those days!