Lamentations 2:20

Modern King James Version

Behold, O Jehovah, and consider to whom You have done this. Shall the women eat their fruit, children of tender care? Shall the priest and the 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 choice ones by the sword in the house of their holy place, 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 to Jehovah his God, and said, Jehovah, why does Your wrath become hot against Your people whom You have brought forth out of 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 with the sword, nor dead in battle.

Jeremiah 19:9

And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they shall each one 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, says Jehovah, I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, and his servants, and the people, and those who are left 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 life. And he shall strike them with the edge of the sword; he shall not spare them, nor have pity, nor have mercy.

Jeremiah 5:31

The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so, and what will you do at the end of it?

Lamentations 1:19

I called for my lovers, but they deceived me; my priests and my elders expired in the city while they sought food for them to bring back their life.

Lamentations 4:10

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

Lamentations 4:13

For the sins of her prophets and the iniquities of her priests, shedding the blood of the just in her midst,

Lamentations 4:16

The face of Jehovah has shared them out; He will no longer look on them; they did not respect the persons of the priests; they did not favor the elders.

Ezekiel 5:10

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

Ezekiel 9:7

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

Leviticus 26:29

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

Deuteronomy 9:26

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