Lamentations 2:20-22
Legacy Standard Bible
Resh
20 See, O Yahweh, and look!
With (A)whom have You dealt thus?
Should women (B)eat their [a]offspring,
The infants who were [b]born healthy?
Should (C)priest and prophet be killed
In the sanctuary of the Lord?
Shin
21 On the ground in the streets
Lie (D)young and old;
My (E)virgins and my young men
Have fallen by the sword.
You have killed them in the day of Your anger;
You have slaughtered, (F)not sparing.
Tav
22 You called as in the day of an appointed time
My (G)terrors on every side;
And there was (H)no one who escaped or survived
In the day of Yahweh’s anger.
Those (I)whom I [c]gave birth to and reared,
My enemy consumed them.
Footnotes
- Lamentations 2:20 Lit fruit
- Lamentations 2:20 Or tenderly cared for
- Lamentations 2:22 Lit bore healthy, tenderly cared for
Lamentations 2:20-22
American Standard Version
20 See, O Jehovah, and behold to whom thou hast done thus!
Shall the women eat their fruit, the children that are dandled in the hands?
Shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?
21 The youth and the old man lie on the ground in the streets;
My virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword:
Thou hast slain them in the day of thine anger; thou hast slaughtered, and not pitied.
22 Thou hast called, as in the day of a solemn assembly, my terrors on every side;
And there was none that escaped or remained in the day of Jehovah’s anger:
Those that I have dandled and brought up hath mine enemy consumed.
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