Lamentaciones 2:12

12 Dicen a sus madres: ¿Dónde hay grano y vino?, mientras desfallecen como heridos en las plazas de la ciudad, mientras exhalan su espíritu en el regazo de sus madres.

Lamentaciones 2:12 Meaning and Commentary

Lamentations 2:12

They say to their mothers, where [is] corn and wine?
&c.] Not the sucklings who could not speak, nor were used to corn and wine, but the children more grown; both are before spoken of, but these are meant, even the young men of Israel, as the Targum; and such as had been brought up in the best manner, had been used to wine, and not water, and therefore ask for that as well as corn; both take in all the necessaries of life; and which they ask of their mothers, who had been used to feed them, and were most tender of them; but now not seeing and having their usual provisions, and not knowing what was the reason of it, inquire after them, being pressed with hunger: when they swooned as the wounded in the streets of the city;
having no food given them, though they asked for it time after time, they fainted away, and died a lingering death; as wounded persons do who are not killed at once, which is the more distressing: when their soul was poured out into their mothers' bosom;
meaning not the desires of their souls for food, expressed in moving and melting language as they sat in their mothers' laps, and lay in their bosoms; which must be piercing unto them, if no more was designed; but their souls or lives themselves, which they gave up through famine, as the Targum; expiring in their mothers' arms.

Lamentaciones 2:12 In-Context

10 En tierra están sentados, en silencio, los ancianos de la hija de Sion. Han echado polvo sobre sus cabezas, se han ceñido de cilicio. Han inclinado a tierra sus cabezas las vírgenes de Jerusalén.

11 Mis ojos se consumen por las lágrimas, hierven mis entrañas; mi hiel se derrama por tierra, a causa de la destrucción de la hija de mi pueblo, mientras niños y lactantes desfallecen en las plazas de la ciudad.

12 Dicen a sus madres: ¿Dónde hay grano y vino?, mientras desfallecen como heridos en las plazas de la ciudad, mientras exhalan su espíritu en el regazo de sus madres.

13 ¿Cómo he de amonestarte? ¿A qué te compararé, hija de Jerusalén? ¿A qué te igualaré al consolarte, virgen hija de Sion? Porque grande como el mar es tu ruina, ¿quién te podrá sanar?

14 Tus profetas tuvieron para ti visiones falsas y necias, y no manifestaron tu iniquidad para que regresaras de tu cautiverio, sino que vieron para ti oráculos falsos y engañosos.