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 merciful women have boiled their own children, They have been for food to them, In the destruction of the daughter of my people.

'And ye have eaten the flesh of your sons; even flesh of your daughters ye do eat.

and thou hast eaten the fruit of thy body, flesh of thy sons and thy daughters (whom Jehovah thy God hath given to thee), in the siege, and in the straitness with which thine enemies do straiten thee.

And the king saith to her, 'What -- to thee?' and she saith, 'This woman said unto me, Give thy son, and we eat him to-day, and my son we eat to-morrow;

And I have caused them to eat the flesh of their sons, and the flesh of their daughters, and each the flesh of his friend they do eat, in the siege and in the straitness with which straiten them do their enemies, and those seeking their life.

Therefore fathers do eat sons in thy midst, And sons eat their fathers, And I have done in thee judgments, And have scattered all thy remnant to every wind.

Of a span long

I called for my lovers, they -- they have deceived me, My priests and my elders in the city have expired; When they have sought food for themselves, Then they give back their soul.

Because of the sins of her prophets, The iniquities of her priests, Who are shedding in her midst the blood of the righteous,

His priests by the sword have fallen, And their widows weep not.

And Jehovah cutteth off from Israel head and tail, Branch and reed -- the same day,

The prophets have prophesied falsely, And the priests bear rule by their means, And My people have loved it so, And what do they at its latter end?

Therefore, thus said Jehovah concerning the prophets who are prophesying in My name, and I have not sent them, and they are saying, Sword and famine is not in this land: By sword and by famine are these prophets consumed.

For both prophet and priest have been profane, Yea, in My house I found their wickedness, An affirmation of Jehovah.

And to the others he said in mine ears, 'Pass on into the city after him, and smite; your eye doth not pity, nor do ye spare;

General references

Till Jehovah looketh and seeth from the heavens,

Princes by their hand have been hanged, The faces of elders have not been honoured.

'And woe to those with child, and to those giving suck, in those days;