10The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
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Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee.
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?
And as the king of Israel was passing by upon the wall, there cried a woman unto him, saying, Help, my lord, O king. …
And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend in the siege and straitness, wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their lives, shall straiten them.
Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of thee, and the sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments in thee, and the whole remnant of thee will I scatter into all the winds.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-12)The elegy in this chapter begins with a lamentation of the very sad and doleful change which the judgments of God had made in Jerusalem. The city that was formerly as gold , as the most fine gold , so rich and splendid, the perfection of beauty and the joy of the whole earth , has become dim, and is changed, has lost its lustre, lost its value, is not what it was; it has become dross. Alas! what a…
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