Lamentations 2:20

Jerusalem begs God to see horrors so great that mothers eat their children and priests and prophets are slain in the sanctuary. It lays the unbearable suffering before God.

Cross-references · 20

• Lam 4:10The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children; They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
• Jer 19:9I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters; and they shall eat everyone the flesh of his friend, in the siege and in the distress, with which their enemies, and those who seek their life, shall distress them.”’
• Ps 78:64Their priests fell by the sword, and their widows couldn’t weep.
• Lam 4:13It is because of the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests, That have shed the blood of the just in the middle of her.
• Exod 32:11Moses begged Yahweh his God, and said, “Yahweh, why does your wrath burn hot against your people, that you have brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?
• Deut 9:26I prayed to Yahweh, and said, “Lord Yahweh, don’t destroy your people and your inheritance, that you have redeemed through your greatness, that you have brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand.
• Ezek 5:10Therefore the fathers will eat the sons within you, and the sons will eat their fathers. I will execute judgments on you; and I will scatter the whole remnant of you to all the winds.
• Deut 28:53–57You will eat the fruit of your own body, the flesh of your sons and of your daughters, whom Yahweh your God has given you, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemies will distress you.
• Jer 14:15–18Therefore Yahweh says concerning the prophets who prophesy in my name, and I didn’t send them, yet they say, ‘Sword and famine will not be in this land.’ Those prophets will be consumed by sword and famine.
• Ezek 9:5–6To the others he said in my hearing, “Go through the city after him, and strike. Don’t let your eye spare, neither have pity.
• Jer 23:11–15for both prophet and priest are profane; yes, in my house I have found their wickedness,” says Yahweh.
• Isa 64:8–12But now, Yahweh, you are our Father. We are the clay, and you our potter. We all are the work of your hand.
• Lam 4:16Yahweh’s anger has scattered them; he will no more regard them: They didn’t respect the persons of the priests, they didn’t favor the elders.
• Lam 1:19“I called for my lovers, but they deceived me. My priests and my elders gave up the spirit in the city, while they sought food for themselves to refresh their souls.
• Isa 9:14–17Therefore Yahweh will cut off from Israel head and tail, palm branch and reed, in one day.
• Lev 26:29You will eat the flesh of your sons, and you will eat the flesh of your daughters.
• 2 Kgs 6:28–29The king said to her, “What is your problem?” She answered, “This woman said to me, ‘Give your son, that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.’
• Isa 63:16–19For you are our Father, though Abraham doesn’t know us, and Israel does not acknowledge us. You, Yahweh, are our Father. Our Redeemer from everlasting is your name.
• Jer 14:20–21We acknowledge, Yahweh, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers; for we have sinned against you.
• Jer 5:31The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority; and my people love to have it so. What will you do in the end of it?

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