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Lamentations 2:21 KJV
Lamentations · chapter 2 · verse 21
The young and the old lie on the ground in the streets: my virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword; thou hast slain them in the day of thine anger; thou hast killed, and not pitied.Lamentations 2:21 · King James Version
Lamentations 2:21 in context
19Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out thine heart like water before the face of the LORD: lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger in the top of every street.
20Behold, 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?
21The young and the old lie on the ground in the streets: my virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword; thou hast slain them in the day of thine anger; thou hast killed, and not pitied.
22Thou hast called as in a solemn day my terrors round about, so that in the day of the LORD’s anger none escaped nor remained: those that I have swaddled and brought up hath mine enemy consumed.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- streetschûwtsproperly, separate by awallH2351 →
- virginsbᵉthûwlâha virginH1330 →
- groundʼeretsthe earthH776 →
- fallennâphalto fall, in a great variety of applicationsH5307 →
- youngnaʻara boy , from the age of infancy to adolescenceH5288 →
- swordcherebdroughtH2719 →
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Justly are these called Lamentations, and they are very pathetic ones, the expressions of grief in perfection, mourning and woe, and nothing else, like the contents of Ezekiel's roll, Eze 2:10. I. Copies of lamentations are here presented and they are painted to the life. 1.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 10-22