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
Revised Standard Version
20 Look, O Lord, and see!
With whom hast thou dealt thus?
Should women eat their offspring,
the children of their tender care?
Should priest and prophet be slain
in the sanctuary of the Lord?
21 In the dust of the streets
lie the young and the old;
my maidens and my young men
have fallen by the sword;
in the day of thy anger thou hast slain them,
slaughtering without mercy.
22 Thou didst invite as to the day of an appointed feast
my terrors on every side;
and on the day of the anger of the Lord
none escaped or survived;
those whom I dandled and reared
my enemy destroyed.
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