Lamentations 2:20

King James 3 - The Literal Traslation

See, O Jehovah, and look! To whom have you done thus? Should women eat their fruit, children of tender care? Should priest and prophet be killed in the holy place of the Lord?

Cross References

2 Chronicles 36:17

And He caused the king of the Chaldeans to go up against them; and he killed their young men by the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no pity on the young man and the virgin, the old man and the very aged; He gave all into his hand.

Psalm 78:64

Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows were not able to weep.

Exodus 32:11

And Moses prayed before the face of Jehovah his God, and he said, Why, O Jehovah, does Your anger be hot against Your people whom You caused to go up from the land of Egypt with great power, and with a mighty hand?

Isaiah 22:2

Crashings fill the noisy city, the joyous city. Your slain ones are not slain by the sword, and not dying in battle.

Jeremiah 19:9

And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters. And a man will eat the flesh of his friend in the siege and distress with which their enemies and those who seek their lives shall distress them.

Jeremiah 21:7

And afterward, a statement of Jehovah, I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, and his servants, and the people, and those who remain in this city from the plague, from the sword, and from the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those who seek their lives. And he shall strike them with the mouth of the sword; he shall not spare them, and not have pity, and not have compassion.

Jeremiah 5:31

the prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their hands; and My people love it so, and what will they do at the end of it?

Lamentations 1:19

I called to ones loving me; they deceived me. My priests and my elders expired in the city, while they sought food for them to bring back their soul.

Lamentations 4:10

The hands of the compassionate women have boiled their own children; they became food to them in the ruin of the daughter of my people.

Lamentations 4:13

because of the sins of her prophets and the iniquities of her priests, pouring out the blood of the righteous ones in her midst,

Lamentations 4:16

The face of Jehovah has divided them out; He will not continue to look on them. They did not lift up the face of the priests, they did not favor the elders.

Ezekiel 5:10

Therefore, the fathers shall eat the sons in your midst, and the sons shall eat their fathers. And I will execute judgments against you, and I will scatter the whole remnant of you into every wind.

Ezekiel 9:7

And He said to them, Defile the house and fill the courts with the wounded. Go forth! And they went out and struck in the city.

Leviticus 26:29

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

Deuteronomy 9:26

And I prayed to Jehovah, and said, O Lord Jehovah, do not destroy Your people, and Your inheritance whom You have redeemed in Your greatness; whom You have brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand.