Lam 2:20 | Clarke | e4.org | Verse 20. Consider to whom thou hast done this ] Perhaps the best sense of this difficult verse is this: "Thou art our Father , we are thy children ; wilt thou destroy thy own offspring ? Was it ever heard that a mother devoured her own child, a helpless infant of a span long?" That it was foretold that there should be such distress in the siege,-that mothers should be obliged to eat their own children, is evident enough from ; ; but the former view of the subject seems the most natural and is best supported by the context . The priest and the prophet are slain; the young and old lie on the ground in the streets; the virgins and young men are fallen by the sword. "THOU hast slain them in the day of thine anger; THOU hast killed, and not pitied." See .

‏ Lamentations 2:20

Verse 20. Consider to whom thou hast done this] Perhaps the best sense of this difficult verse is this: "Thou art our Father, we are thy children; wilt thou destroy thy own offspring? Was it ever heard that a mother devoured her own child, a helpless infant of a span long?" That it was foretold that there should be such distress in the siege,-that mothers should be obliged to eat their own children, is evident enough from Le 26:29; De 28:53, 56, 57; but the former view of the subject seems the most natural and is best supported by the context. The priest and the prophet are slain; the young and old lie on the ground in the streets; the virgins and young men are fallen by the sword. "THOU hast slain them in the day of thine anger; THOU hast killed, and not pitied." See La 4:10.