Lamentations 2:20

Modern English Version

Look, O  Lord, and consider! To whom have You done this? Should the women eat their offspring, the children who were born healthy? Should the priest and the prophet be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?

Cross References

2 Chronicles 36:17

So He brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans from Babylon, who killed their young men with the sword at the house of their sanctuary. He did not spare a young man or virgin, old or aged. God gave all of them into his hand.

Psalm 78:64

Their priests fell by the sword, and their widows made no lamentation.

Exodus 32:11

But Moses sought the favor of the Lord his God, and said, “Lord, why does Your wrath burn against Your people, whom You have brought forth from the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?

Isaiah 22:2

you who were full of noise, a tumultuous city, a joyous city? Your slain are not slain with the sword, nor did they die in battle.

Jeremiah 19:9

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

Jeremiah 21:7

Afterwards, says the Lord, I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah and his servants and the people and such as are left in this city from the pestilence, 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 life. And he will strike them with the edge of the sword. He will not spare them or have pity or mercy.

Jeremiah 5:31

The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority; and My people love to have it so. Yet what will you do in the end?

Lamentations 1:19

I called for my lovers, but they deceived me; my priests and my elders perished in the city, while they sought food to restore their strength.

Lamentations 4:10

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

Lamentations 4:13

This was for the sins of her prophets and the iniquities of her priests, who poured out in her midst the blood of the righteous.

Lamentations 4:16

The presence of the Lord scattered them; He will regard them no more; they do not respect the priests, nor show favor to the elders.

Ezekiel 5:10

Therefore the fathers shall eat their sons in your midst, and the sons shall eat their fathers. I will execute judgments on you, and the whole remnant of you will I scatter into all the winds.

Ezekiel 9:7

Then he said to them, “Defile the temple, and fill the courts with the slain. Go forth!” So they went out and killed in the city.

Leviticus 26:29

You shall eat the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters.

Deuteronomy 9:26

I prayed therefore to the Lord, and said, “O Lord God, do not destroy Your people, Your inheritance, which You have redeemed through Your greatness, which You have brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand.