Lamentations 2:12-14
1599 Geneva Bible
12 They have said to their mothers, Where is [a]bread and drink? when they swooned as the wounded in the streets of the city, and when they [b]gave up the ghost in their mother’s bosom.
13 [c]What thing shall I take to witness for thee? What thing shall I compare to thee, O daughter Jerusalem? what shall I liken to thee, that I may comfort thee, O virgin daughter Zion? for thy breach is great like the sea: who can heal thee?
14 Thy Prophets have[d]looked out vain and foolish things for thee, and they have not discovered thine iniquity, to turn away thy captivity, but have looked out for thee false [e]prophecies, and causes of banishment.
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- Lamentations 2:12 Hebrew, wheat and wine.
- Lamentations 2:12 Hebrew, poured out the soul.
- Lamentations 2:13 Meaning, that her calamity was so evident, that it needed no witnesses.
- Lamentations 2:14 Because the false prophets called themselves Seers, as the others were called, therefore he showeth that they saw amiss, because they did not reprove the people’s faults, but flattered them in their sins, which was the cause of their destruction.
- Lamentations 2:14 Or, burdens.
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