Lamentations 2:20-22
English Standard Version
20 Look, O Lord, and see!
(A)With whom have you dealt thus?
(B)Should women eat the fruit of their womb,
the children of (C)their tender care?
Should (D)priest and prophet be killed
in the sanctuary of the Lord?
21 In the dust of the streets
(E)lie the young and the old;
(F)my young women and my young men
have fallen by the sword;
(G)you have killed them in the day of your anger,
slaughtering (H)without pity.
22 You summoned as if to (I)a festival day
(J)my terrors on every side,
(K)and on the day of the anger of the Lord
no one escaped or survived;
(L)those whom I held and raised
my enemy destroyed.
Lamentations 2:20-22
Holman Christian Standard Bible
ר Resh
20 Lord, look and consider
who You have done this to.
Should women eat their own children,(A)
the infants they have nurtured?[a]
Should priests and prophets
be killed in the Lord’s sanctuary?
שׁ Shin
21 Both young and old
are lying on the ground in the streets.
My young men and women
have fallen by the sword.
You have killed them in the day of Your anger,
slaughtering without compassion.(B)
ת Tav
22 You summoned my attackers[b] on every side,(C)
as if for an appointed festival day;
on the day of the Lord’s anger
no one escaped or survived.
My enemy has destroyed
those I nurtured[c] and reared.
Footnotes
- Lamentations 2:20 Or infants in a healthy condition; Hb obscure
- Lamentations 2:22 Or terrors
- Lamentations 2:22 Or I bore healthy; Hb obscure
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