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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.

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 2:20 Lit fruit
  2. Lamentations 2:20 Or tenderly cared for
  3. Lamentations 2:22 Lit bore healthy, tenderly cared for

20 See, Yahweh, and take note!
    With whom have you dealt thus?
Should women eat their young
    children of tender care?
Should priest and prophet be slain
    in the sanctuary of the Lord?
21 They lie in the soil of the streets,
    young and old;
my young women[a] and young men,
    they have fallen by the sword;
you have slain on the day of your anger,[b]
    you have slaughtered and not shown mercy.
22 You have summoned my horror from all around,
    as if for a feast day;
no one on the day of Yahweh’s anger
    is a fugitive and a survivor;
whoever I have cared for and reared,
    my enemy has destroyed.

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 2:21 Or “my virgins”
  2. Lamentations 2:21 Literally “your nose”