Lamentations 2:20

The Passion Translation

“Look, Yahweh, and please consider. Whom have you ever treated this way? Should women eat their offspring, the little ones they have nursed? Should priests and prophets be slaughtered in the Lord’s sanctuary?

Cross References

Psalm 78:64

Their priests were slaughtered and their widows were killed before they had time to weep.

Isaiah 22:2

The whole city is in an uproar. What’s happened to the once happy, bustling city? The bodies of the slain litter your streets. They were not slain by the sword on the battlefield but executed.

Jeremiah 19:9

I will cause their bloodthirsty enemies to lay siege to their city and cause them great suffering. They will become so desperate that they will become cannibals, eating their neighbors and even their own children.’

Jeremiah 21:7

“ ‘And after this, declares Yahweh, I will hand over Judah’s king, Zedekiah, his officials, and everyone else in the city who survives the disease, war, and food shortages, to King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon and their enemies. He will slaughter them with the sword and show no mercy, pity, or compassion.’ ”

Jeremiah 5:31

The prophets prophesy lies, and the priests lead out of their own self-interest. And my people love it that way. But what will they do when judgment comes?”

Lamentations 1:19

“I called to my lovers, but they cheated on me. My leaders and priests died in the city while scrounging for food just to keep themselves alive.

Lamentations 4:10

The hands of caring women cooked their own children; they became their food when my beloved people were destroyed.

Lamentations 4:13

Yet this happened because of the sins of her prophets and the crimes of her priests, who shed innocent blood in the heart of the city.

Lamentations 4:16

The face of Yahweh scattered them; he will look on them no more. They had no respect for the priests, no honor for her leaders.

Ezekiel 5:10

As a result, those of you who are parents will eat their children, and children will eat their parents. I will punish you and scatter what remains of you to the winds.

Ezekiel 9:7

He said to the executioners, “Go make my temple unfit for worship. Fill its courtyard with corpses. Now get to work.” They departed and began to strike the people throughout the city.