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Lamentations 2:12

King James Version (KJV)

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Lamentations 2:12

Verse 12 of 22

Scripture focus

They say to their mothers, Where [is] corn and wine? when they swooned as the wounded in the streets of the city, when their soul was poured out into their mothers’ bosom.

Lamentations 2:12 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Lamentations 2:12

Theological / Devotional

To their mothers. Here is portrayed the most pitiful picture of all that warfare brings, the cries of starving children in the arms of helpless parents.

Corn and wine. Representative of solid and liquid food in general (see Deut. 11:14).

Soul was poured out. When they died of hunger at their mothers’ breasts (see on Ps. 16:10; 1 Kings 17:21).

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