Lamentations 2:12
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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.They cry out to their mothers: “Where is the grain and wine?” as they faint like the wounded in the streets of the city, as their lives fade away in the arms of their mothers.
In other translations
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.They cry out to their mothers: “Where is the grain and wine?” as they faint like the wounded in the streets of the city, as their lives fade away in the arms of their mothers.
Hebrew words
לְאִמֹּתָםle'imotamto mothers theirH517יֹאמְרוּyomeruthey sayH559אַיֵּה'aiyehwhere?H346דָּגָןdagan[are] grainH1715וָיָיִןvayayinand wineH3196בְּהִתְעַטְּפָםbehit'atefamwhen faint away theyH5848כֶּחָלָלkechalallike <the> [one] fatally woundedH2491בִּרְחֹבוֹתbirchovotin [the] open places ofH7339עִיר'ira cityH5892בְּהִשְׁתַּפֵּךְbehishtapekhwhen pours itself outH8210נַפְשָׁםnafshamlife theirH5315אֶל־'el-toH413חֵיקcheik[the] bosom ofH2436אִמֹּתָם׃ ס'imotammothers theirH517
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Related verses
- Ezekiel 30:24And I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and put my sword in his hand: but I will break Pharaoh’s arms, and he shall groan before him with the groanings of a deadly wounded man.I will strengthen the arms of Babylon’s king and place My sword in his hand, but I will break the arms of Pharaoh, who will groan before him like a mortally wounded man.
- Isaiah 53:12Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.Therefore I will allot Him a portion with the great, and He will divide the spoils with the strong, because He has poured out His life unto death, and He was numbered with the transgressors. Yet He bore the sin of many and made intercession for the transgressors.
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