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Lamentations 2:20

Lamentations chapter 2 · verse 20 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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?

KJV

King James Version · 1611

Behold, O Lord, and consider to whom thou hast done this. Shall the women eat their fruit, and children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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?

Context

v.19Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches; Pour out thy heart like water before the face of the Lord: Lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger at the head of every street.

v.20This passage

v.21The 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.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Isaiah 9:14

    Therefore Jehovah will cut off from Israel head and tail, palm-branch and rush, in one day.

  • Jeremiah 23:11

    for both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in my house have I found their wickedness, saith Jehovah.

  • Lamentations 4:16

    The anger of Jehovah hath scattered them; he will no more regard them: They respected not the persons of the priests, they favored not the elders.

  • Leviticus 26:29

    And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat.

  • Isaiah 64:8

    But now, O Jehovah, thou art our Father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.

  • Jeremiah 14:15

    Therefore thus saith Jehovah concerning the prophets that prophesy in my name, and I sent them not, yet they say, Sword and famine shall not be in this land: By sword and famine shall those prophets be consumed.