Lamentations 2:21 Cross References - Thomson

²¹ On the high way lie the youth and the elder. My virgins and my young men are gone into captivity; with sword and with famine thou hast slain; in the day of thine anger thou hast slaughtered and hast not spared.

⁵⁰ a nation of an unblushing countenance, which will not respect the person of an elder, nor compassionate a youth.

²¹ Now when Joshua devoted it, and all that were in it, men and women, young and old, ox and ass, to the edge of the sword,

³ Now therefore go, and smite Amelek, and Jerim, and all that belong to him. Thou shalt not spare one of him but utterly destroy him. Having devoted him and all belonging to him to destruction, thou shalt spare none, but shalt slay man and woman, infant and suckling, herds and flocks, camels and asses.

¹⁷ Therefore he brought against them the king of the Chaldeans, who slew their young men with the sword in the house of his sanctuary, and had no compassion on Sedekias, nor pity for their virgins. And they carried away their elders. He delivered all into their hands;

¹³ and the decree was despatched by posts throughout the whole kingdom of Artaxerxes, to destroy the race of the Jews on a certain day of the twelfth month which is Adar, and to make spoil of their goods.

⁶² and gave up his people to the sword, and slighted his inheritance. ⁶³ A fire consumed their young men, and their virgins made no lamentation.

¹¹ And after a time there will be no verdure in it, by reason of its being parched up. [p] ye women who are coming from a goddess attend! For this is not a people, who have understanding; therefore he[c] the city. [v] the vineyard. who made them will not have pity on them; nor will he who formed them shew them any favour.

¹¹ Therefore my wrath, which I filled up and restrained that I might not destroy them, I now pour out on infants in the streets, and on the congregation of youths at the same time. Because husband and wife shall be comprehended; the elder with him who is full of days;

²¹ For death is gone up through your windows: it is come into your land, to destroy infants at home and young men in the streets:

²² "Behold I will punish them. Their young men shall die by the sword. And their sons and their daughters shall die by famine.

¹⁴ And I will scatter them, their heads of families and their brethren, both fathers and their sons at the same time. I will not have compassion, saith the Lord, nor will I spare, nor pity them for their destruction.

²¹ For this cause deliver up their sons to famine and give them up in multitudes to the sword. Let their wives become childless and widows; and the husbands be cut off by pestilence and their young men fall by the sword in battle.

⁷ And after that, saith the Lord, I will deliver Sedekias king of Juda and his servants and the people left in this city from the pestilence and from the famine and from the sword, into the hands of their enemies who seek their lives, and they shall smite them with the edge of the sword. I will not spare them, nor will I have compassion on them.

²² and in thee I will disperse chariots and charioteers; and in thee I will disperse the youth and the virgin; and in thee I will disperse the husband and the wife;

¹⁵ From amidst me the Lord hath moved all my mighty men. He hath brought upon me the time for crushing my chosen bands. The Lord trod out a vat for the virgin daughter of Juda.

¹⁸ [s] The Lord is righteous; for against his express commandment I rebelled. Hear I beseech you all ye peoples and behold my sorrow! my virgins and my young men are gone into captivity.

² In the day of his indignation the Lord overwhelmed and did not spare; in his wrath he destroyed all the comeliness of Jacob: he levelled to the ground the strong holds of the daughter of Juda. He brought contempt on her king, and her chiefs.

¹⁷ The Lord hath done what he purposed. He hath executed his decree, what he enjoined in days of old. He hath destroyed and hath not spared. He hath caused an enemy to rejoice over thee. He hath exalted the horn of thine oppressor.

⁴³ Thou hast covered with wrath and discarded us; thou hast slain and hast not spared;

¹¹ For this cause, as I live saith the Lord, Because thou hast polluted my holy things with all thine abominations; therefore I will cast thee off; mine eye shall not spare nor will I have compassion.

⁴ [7] The day hath approached, not with commotions nor with pangs.

⁹ [5]For thus saith the Lord, Lo! the end is coming.

¹⁸ therefore I will deal with them with wrath. Mine eye shall not spare, nor will I have compassion.

⁵ and to the others he said in my hearing, Go ye after him into the city and smite and spare not with your eyes nor shew compassion. ⁶ Destroy utterly old men and young, virgins and infants and married women; but go not near any of those who have the mark on them. Begin at my sanctuary. So they began with the men the elders who were in the house.

¹⁰ therefore mine eye shall not spare nor will I have compassion. I have requited their ways upon their heads.

¹⁰ I sent death among you by the way of Egypt, and slew your young men with the sword and gave up your horses to capture: and by your rage I involved your camps in fire. And when even for this you turned not to me, saith the Lord,

⁶ Therefore I will no more spare the inhabitants of this land, saith the Lord. Now behold I deliver up the men, every one into the hand of his neighbour, and into the hand of his king; and they shall smite the land, and I will not deliver out of their hand.