Yēlìmǐāigē 2:12

12 Nàshí , tāmen zaì chéng neì jiē shang fā hūn , hǎoxiàng shòushāng de , zaì mǔqin de huái lǐ , jiāngyào sàngméng . duì mǔqin shuō , gǔ jiǔ zaì nǎli ne .

Yēlìmǐāigē 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.

Yēlìmǐāigē 2:12 In-Context

10 Xī \'ān chéng de zhǎnglǎo zuò zaì dì shang mò mò wú shēng . tāmen yáng qǐ chéntǔ luō zaì tóu shang , yào shù má bù . Yēlùsǎlĕng de chǔnǚ chuí tóu zhì dì .

11 Wǒ yǎn zhōng liú leì , yǐzhì shī míng , wǒde xīncháng rǎoluàn , gān dǎn tú dì , dōu yīn wǒ zhòng mín zāo huǐmiè , yòu yīn háitóng hé chī nǎi de zaì chéng neì jiē shang fā hūn .

12 Nàshí , tāmen zaì chéng neì jiē shang fā hūn , hǎoxiàng shòushāng de , zaì mǔqin de huái lǐ , jiāngyào sàngméng . duì mǔqin shuō , gǔ jiǔ zaì nǎli ne .

13 Yēlùsǎlĕng de mín nǎ , wǒ kĕ yòng shénme xiàng nǐ zhèngmíng ne . wǒ kĕ yòng shénme yǔ nǐ xiāng bǐ ne . Xī \'ān de mín nǎ , wǒ kĕ ná shénme hé nǐ bǐjiào , hǎo ānwèi nǐ ne . yīnwei nǐde liè kǒu dà rú hǎi , shuí néng yīzhì nǐ ne .

14 Nǐde xiānzhī wèi nǐ jiàn xūjiǎ hé yúmeì de yìxiàng , bìng méiyǒu xiǎnlù nǐde zuìniè , shǐ nǐ beìlǔ de guī huí . què wèi nǐ jiàn xūjiǎ de mò shì hé shǐ nǐ beì gǎn chū bĕn jìng de yuángù .