20 Behold, O Lord, and consider to whom thou hast done thus: shall the women eat their fruit, and children of a [a]span long? shall the Priest and the Prophet be slain in the Sanctuary of the Lord?

21 The young and the old 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 thy wrath: thou hast killed, and not spared.

22 Thou hast called as in a solemn day my [b]terrors round about, so that in the day of the Lord’s wrath none escaped nor remained: those that I have nourished and brought up, hath mine enemy consumed.

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 2:20 Or, brought up in their own hands.
  2. Lamentations 2:22 Or, enemies, whom I feared.

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