Lamentations 2:20

The Scriptures 1998

“See, O יהוה, and look attentively To whom have You done thus. Should the women eat their offspring, Infants of a hand breadth? Should the priest and prophet be slain In the set-apart place of יהוה ?

Cross References

Lamentations 4:10

The hands of the compassionate women Have boiled their own children; They became food for them In the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Jeremiah 19:9

“And I shall make them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and eat one another’s flesh in the siege and in the distress with which their enemies and those who seek their lives distress them.” ’

Psalm 78:64

His priests fell by the sword, And their widows could not weep.

Lamentations 4:13

It was because of the sins of her prophets, The crookednesses of her priests, Who shed in her midst the blood of the righteous.

Deuteronomy 9:26

“And I prayed to יהוה, and said, ‘O Master יהוה, do not destroy Your people and Your inheritance whom You have redeemed in Your greatness, whom You have brought out of Mitsrayim with a strong hand.

Exodus 32:11

But Mosheh pleaded with יהוה  his Elohim, and said, “יהוה, why does Your wrath burn against Your people whom You have brought out of the land of Mitsrayim with great power and with a strong hand?

Ezekiel 5:10

‘Therefore fathers are going to eat their sons in your midst, and sons eat their fathers. And I shall execute judgments among you and scatter all your remnant to all the winds.

Lamentations 4:16

The face of יהוה  scattered them. He no longer regards them. They showed no respect for the priests Nor favour to the elders.

Lamentations 1:19

I called for my lovers, but they deceived me. My priests and my elders breathed their last in the city, While they sought food to bring back their life.

Jeremiah 5:31

The prophets have prophesied falsely, and the priests rule by their own hand, and My people have loved it so. And what are you going to do at the end of it?

Leviticus 26:29

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

Isaiah 22:2

you who are filled with turmoils, a noisy city, a city of revelry? Your slain are not slain with the sword, nor the dead in battle.

2 Chronicles 36:17

Therefore He brought against them the sovereign of the Chaldeans, and he slew their young men with the sword in the House of their set-apart place, and had no compassion on young man or maiden, on the aged or the weak – He gave all into his hand.

Jeremiah 21:7

“And afterward,” declares יהוה, “I give Tsiḏ

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 smote in the city.