Yēlìmǐāigē 2:21

21 Shàonián rén hé lǎo nián rén dōu zaì jiē shang tǎng wò . wǒde chǔnǚ hé zhuàng dīng dōu dǎo zaì dāo xià . nǐ fānù de rìzi shā sǐ tāmen . nǐ shā le , bìng bù gù xī .

Yēlìmǐāigē 2:21 Meaning and Commentary

Lamentations 2:21

The young and the old lie on the ground in the streets
Young men and old men, virgins and aged women; these promiscuously lay on the ground in the public streets, fainting and dying for want of food; or lay killed there by the sword of the enemy; the Chaldeans sparing neither age nor sex. The Targum interprets it of their sleeping on the ground,

``young men slept on the ground in the villages, and old men who used to lie on pillows of fine wool, and on beds of ivory;''

but the former sense is confirmed by what follows: my virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword;
by the sword of the Chaldeans, when they entered the city: thou hast slain [them] in the day of thine anger: thou hast killed,
[and] not pitied;
the Chaldeans were only instruments; it was the Lord's doing; it was according to his will; it was what he had purposed and decreed; what he had solemnly declared and threatened; and now in his providence brought about, for the sins of the Jews, by which he was provoked to anger; and so gave them up into the hands of their enemies, to slay them without mercy; and which is here owned; the church takes notice of the hand of God in all this.

Yēlìmǐāigē 2:21 In-Context

19 Yè jiān , mĕi fùng jiāo gèng de shíhou yào qǐlai hūhǎn , zaì zhǔ miànqián qīng xīn rú shuǐ . nǐde háitóng zaì gè shì kǒu shǎng shòu è fā hūn . nǐ yào wèi tāmende xìngméng xiàng zhǔ jǔ shǒu dǎogào .

20 Yēhéhuá a , qiú nǐ guānkàn . jiàn nǐ xiàng shuí zhèyàng xíng . fùrén qǐ kĕ chī zìjǐ suǒ shēngyù shǒu lǐ suǒ yáo lòng de yīnghái ma . jìsī hé xiānzhī qǐ kĕ zaì zhǔ de shèng suǒ zhōng beì shā lù ma .

21 Shàonián rén hé lǎo nián rén dōu zaì jiē shang tǎng wò . wǒde chǔnǚ hé zhuàng dīng dōu dǎo zaì dāo xià . nǐ fānù de rìzi shā sǐ tāmen . nǐ shā le , bìng bù gù xī .

22 Nǐ zhāo jù sìwéi jīngxià wǒde , xiàng zaì dà huì de rìzi zhāo jù rén yíyàng . Yēhéhuá fānù de rìzi , wú rén taótuō , wú rén cún liú . wǒ suǒ yáo lòng suǒ yǎng yù de yīnghái , chóudí dōu shā jìng le .