Lamentations 2:20 - Tree of Life Version

²⁰ Look, Adonai, and consider with whom You have dealt so severely! Should women eat their offspring, their healthy newborn infants? Should kohen and prophet be slain in the Sanctuary of the Lord?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁰ Behold, O LORD, And consider to whom thou hast done this. Shall the women eat their fruit, And children of a span long? Shall the priest and the prophet be slain In the sanctuary of the Lord?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁰ Behold, O Lord, and consider [carefully] to whom You have done this. Should and shall women eat the fruit of their own bodies, the children whom they have tended and swaddled with their hands? Should and shall priest and prophet be slain in the place set apart [for the worship] of the Lord?

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁰ See, O Jehovah, and behold to whom thou hast done thus! Shall the women eat their fruit, the children that are dandled in the hands? Shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?

Common English Bible

²⁰ LORD, look and see to whom you have done this! Should women eat their own offspring, their own beautiful babies? Should priest and prophet be killed in my Lord’s own sanctuary?

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁰ RES. O Lord, see and consider those whom you have made into a such vintage. So then, shall women eat their own fruit, little ones measured by the palm of the hand? Shall priest and prophet be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?

Lamentations 2:20 Tagairtí Cros

2 Chronicles 36:17

Therefore He brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans, who killed their young men with the sword in the House of their Temple. He had no pity on young man or virgin, elderly or infirm—He gave them all into his hand.

Psalm 78:64

Their priests fell by the sword, and their widows could not weep.

Exodus 32:11

Then Moses sought Adonai his God and said, “Adonai, why should Your wrath burn 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

You were full of noise, a boisterous city, an exultant town? Your dead were not slain with the sword, nor dead in battle.

Jeremiah 19:9

And I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and their daughters, and everyone will eat his companion’s flesh during the siege and distress, which their enemies and those who seek their life will inflict on them.

Jeremiah 21:7

“Then afterward,” declares Adonai, “I will deliver King Zedekiah of Judah and his servants, as well as the people—those surviving in this city from the pestilence, the sword and the famine—into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, into the hand of their foes, yes, into the hand of those who seek their life. So he will smite them with the edge of the sword; he will not spare them, nor have pity or compassion.”

Jeremiah 5:31

The prophets prophesy falsely, the kohanim rule by their own authority, and My people love it this way! But what will you do in the end?”

Lamentations 1:19

I called to my lovers— they deceived me! My kohanim and my elders perished in the city when they sought food to keep themselves alive.

Lamentations 4:10

The hands of compassionate women boiled their own children. They became their food when the daughter of my people were destroyed.

Lamentations 4:13

Yet it happened because of the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her kohanim, who shed in her midst the blood of the tzadikim .

Lamentations 4:16

Adonai Himself has scattered them. He will look on them no more. They did not respect the kohanim. They did not favor the elders.

Ezekiel 5:10

Therefore the fathers will eat the sons in your midst, and sons will eat their fathers. I will execute judgments on you and I will scatter the remainder of you to all the winds.

Ezekiel 9:7

He said to them, “Defile the House and fill the courts with the slain. Go out!” So they went out and began to kill in the city.

Leviticus 26:29

You will eat the flesh of your sons and you will eat the flesh of your daughters.

Deuteronomy 9:26

I prayed to Adonai and said, ‘O Lord, Adonai, do not destroy Your people—Your inheritance that You have redeemed through Your greatness and brought out from Egypt with a mighty hand.