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

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

And thou shalt eat the fruit of thy own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters which the LORD thy God hath given thee, in the siege and in the straitness with which thy enemies shall distress thee:

And the king said to her, What aileth thee? and she answered, This woman said to me, Give thy son, that we may eat him to-day, and we will eat my son to-morrow.

And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they shall eat every one 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 thee, and the sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments in thee, and the whole remnant of thee 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 resigned their breath 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, 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 ye do in the end thereof?

Therefore thus saith 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; even in my house have I found their wickedness, saith the LORD.

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

General references

Till the LORD shall look down, and behold from heaven.

Princes were hanged by their hand: the faces of elders were not honored.

But woe to them that are with child, and to them that nurse infants in those days.