Lamentations 2:20
Look, O Lord, and consider: Whom have You ever treated like this? Should women eat their offspring, the infants they have nurtured? Should priests and prophets be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?
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?
Note of a span…: or, swaddled with their hands?
“Look, Lord, and see to whom you have done thus! Should the women eat their offspring, the children that they held and bounced on their knees? Should the priest and the prophet be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?
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?
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Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- consider
- Exodus 32:11; Deuteronomy 9:26; Isaiah 63:16–19; Isaiah 64:8–12; Jeremiah 14:20–21
- Shall the women
- Lamentations 4:10; Leviticus 26:29; Deuteronomy 28:53–57; 2 Kings 6:28, 29; Jeremiah 19:9; Ezekiel 5:10
- of a span long
- or, swaddled with their hands. shall thepriest.
- Lamentations 1:19; Lamentations 4:13, 16; Psalm 78:64; Isaiah 9:14–17; Jeremiah 5:31; Jeremiah 14:15–18; Jeremiah 23:11–15; Ezekiel 9:5, 6