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
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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