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Lamentazioni 2:12

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12 E dicevano alle madri loro: Dove vi è del frumento e del vino? E svenivano, come un ferito per le strade della città, E l’anima loro si versava nel seno delle madri loro.

Lamentazioni 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.

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Lamentazioni 2:12 In-Context

10 Gli anziani della figliuola di Sion seggono in terra, e tacciono; Si son messa della polvere sopra il capo, Si son cinti di sacchi; Le vergini di Gerusalemme bassano il capo in terra.
11 Gli occhi mi si son consumati di lagrimare, le mie interiora si son conturbate, Il mio fegato si è versato in terra, Per lo fiaccamento della figliuola del mio popolo, Quando i fanciulli, ed i bambini di poppa spasimavano Per le piazze della città.
12 E dicevano alle madri loro: Dove vi è del frumento e del vino? E svenivano, come un ferito per le strade della città, E l’anima loro si versava nel seno delle madri loro.
13 Con che ti scongiurerò? a che ti assomiglierò, figliuola di Gerusalemme? A che ti agguaglierò, per consolarti, Vergine, figliuola di Sion? Conciossiachè il tuo fiaccamento sia grande come il mare: chi ti medicherà?
14 I tuoi profeti ti han vedute visioni di vanitĂ , e di cose scempie; E non hanno scoperta la tua iniquitĂ , Per ritrarti di cattivitĂ , E ti hanno veduti carichi di vanitĂ , e traviamenti.
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