Lamentations 2:20

The Scriptures 2009

“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 killed In the set-apart place of יהוה?

Cross References

2 Chronicles 36:17

Therefore He brought against them the sovereign of the Kasdim, and he killed 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.

Psalm 78:64

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

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?

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.

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.” ’

Jeremiah 21:7

“And afterward,” declares יהוה, “I give Tsiḏqiyahu sovereign of Yehuḏah, his servants and the people, and such as are left in this city from the pestilence and the sword and the scarcity of food, into the hand of Neḇuḵaḏretstsar sovereign of Baḇel, 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 pardon them, nor spare nor have compassion.” ’

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 struck in the city.

Leviticus 26:29

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

Deuteronomy 9:26

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