Lamentations 2:12 meaning and explanation
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.
Lamentations 2:12, Berean Standard Bible
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The speaker is the poet of Lamentations, watching Jerusalem after Babylon destroyed it in 586 BC. Children starving during the siege cry to their mothers for grain and wine, the most basic food and drink, and faint like wounded men in the streets, dying in their mothers' arms.
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