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 the pitying women have boiled their own children; they became their food in the ruin of the daughter of my people.

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

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

And the king said to her, What ails you? And she said, This woman said to me, Give your son so 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 each one eat the flesh of his friend in the siege and distress, with which their enemies and those who seek their lives shall distress them.

So the fathers shall eat the sons in your midst, and the sons shall eat their fathers. And I will execute judgments in you, and I will scatter the whole remnant of you into all the winds.

Of a span long

I called for my lovers, but they deceived me; my priests and my elders expired in the city while they sought food for them to bring back their life.

For the sins of her prophets and the iniquities of her priests, shedding the blood of the just in her midst,

Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows were not able to weep.

And Jehovah will cut off from Israel head and tail, branch and rush, in one day.

The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so, and what will you do at the end of it?

So Jehovah says this concerning the prophets who prophesy in My name, and I did not send them; yet they say, Sword and famine shall not be in this land; by sword and famine those prophets shall be consumed.

For both prophet and priest are ungodly; yes, in My house I have found their evil, says Jehovah.

And He said to those in my hearing, Go over in the city after him, and strike. Let not your eye spare, nor have pity.

General references

until Jehovah shall look down and behold from Heaven.

Rulers were hanged by the hand; the faces of elders were not honored.

But woe to those with babe in womb, and to those who give suck in those days!