Lamentations 2:20 meaning and explanation

Look, O LORD, and consider: Whom have You ever treated like this? Should women eat their offspring, the infants they have nurtured? Should priests and prophets be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?

Lamentations 2:20, Berean Standard Bible

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These words come near the end of a long lament over Jerusalem's destruction by Babylon in 586 BC. The speaker, likely the prophet, turns from describing the suffering to addressing God directly.

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