Lamentations 2:20

Conservative English Version

Think about it, LORD! Have you ever been this cruel to anyone before? Is it right for mothers to eat their children, or for priests and prophets to be killed in your temple?

Cross References

2 Chronicles 36:17

The LORD sent King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia to attack Jerusalem. Nebuchadnezzar killed the young men who were in the temple, and he showed no mercy to anyone, whether man or woman, young or old. God let him kill everyone in the city.

Psalm 78:64

Priests died violent deaths, but their widows were not allowed to mourn.

Exodus 32:11

Moses tried to get the LORD God to change his mind: Our LORD, you used your mighty power to bring these people out of Egypt. Now don't become angry and destroy them.

Isaiah 22:2

Your city is filled with noisy shouts. Those who lie drunk in your streets were not killed in battle.

Jeremiah 19:9

And while your enemies are trying to break through your city walls to kill you, the food supply will run out. You will become so hungry that you will eat the flesh of your friends and even of your own children.

Jeremiah 21:7

(SEE 21:3)

Jeremiah 5:31

Prophets give their messages in the name of a false god, my priests don't want to serve me, and you--my own people-- like it this way! But on the day of disaster, where will you turn for help?

Lamentations 1:19

I called out to my lovers, but they betrayed me. My priests and my leaders died while searching the city for scraps of food.

Lamentations 4:10

Life in the city is so bad that loving mothers have boiled and eaten their own children.

Lamentations 4:13

Jerusalem was punished because her prophets and her priests had sinned and caused the death of innocent victims.

Lamentations 4:16

The LORD is the one who sent them scattering, and he has forgotten them. No respect or kindness will be shown to the priests or leaders.

Ezekiel 5:10

Parents will be so desperate for food that they will eat their own children, and children will eat their parents. Those who survive this horror will be scattered in every direction.

Ezekiel 9:7

Then the LORD said, "Pollute the temple by piling the dead bodies in the courtyards. Now get busy!" They left and started killing the people of Jerusalem.

Leviticus 26:29

In fact, you will be so desperate for food that you will eat your own children.

Deuteronomy 9:26

and I prayed: Our LORD, please don't wipe out your people. You used your great power to rescue them from Egypt and to make them your very own.