"Thou hast called as in a solemn day my terrors round about, so that in the day of the LORD'S anger none escaped nor rema…" — Lamentations 2:22

Lamentations 2:22 · KJV

“Thou hast called as in a solemn day my terrors round about, so that in the day of the LORD'S anger none escaped nor remained: those that I have swaddled and brought up hath mine enemy consumed.”

— Lamentations 2:22

Verse 21

The young and the old lie on the ground in the streets: my virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword; thou hast slain {them} in the day of thine anger; thou hast killed, {and} not pitied.

Lamentations 2 — Context

Behold, O LORD, and consider to whom thou hast done this. Shall the women eat their fruit, {and} children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord? {of a span...: or, swaddled with their hands?}

The young and the old lie on the ground in the streets: my virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword; thou hast slain {them} in the day of thine anger; thou hast killed, {and} not pitied.

Thou hast called as in a solemn day my terrors round about, so that in the day of the LORD'S anger none escaped nor remained: those that I have swaddled and brought up hath mine enemy consumed.

Cross References

Jeremiah 6:25

Go not forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy {and} fear {is} on every side.

Psalms 31:13

For I have heard the slander of many: fear {was} on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.

Jeremiah 20:3

And it came to pass on the morrow, that Pashur brought forth Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then said Jeremiah unto him, The LORD hath not called thy name Pashur, but Magormissabib. {Magormissabib: that is, Fear round about}

Jeremiah 16:2-4

Thou shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou have sons or daughters in this place.

Isaiah 24:17-18

Fear, and the pit, and the snare, {are} upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.

Amos 9:1-4

I saw the Lord standing upon the altar: and he said, Smite the lintel of the door, that the posts may shake: and cut them in the head, all of them; and I will slay the last of them with the sword: he that fleeth of them shall not flee away, and he that escapeth of them shall not be delivered. {lintel: or, chapiter, or, knop} {cut...: or, wound them}

Hosea 9:12-16

Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, {that there shall} not {be} a man {left}: yea, woe also to them when I depart from them!

Deuteronomy 28:18

Cursed {shall be} the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.