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Lamentaciones 2:21

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21 »Mira cómo yacen en las calles,
jóvenes y viejos,
niños y niñas,
muertos por la espada del enemigo.
Los mataste en tu enojo,
los masacraste sin misericordia.

Lamentaciones 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.
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Lamentaciones 2:21 In-Context

19 Levántense durante la noche y clamen.
Desahoguen el corazón como agua delante del Señor.
Levanten a él sus manos en oración,
y rueguen por sus hijos
porque en cada calle
desfallecen de hambre.
20 «¡Oh Señor
, piensa en esto!
¿Debieras tratar a tu propio pueblo de semejante manera?
¿Habrán de comerse las madres a sus propios hijos,
a quienes mecieron en sus rodillas?
¿Habrán de ser asesinados los sacerdotes y los profetas
dentro del templo del Señor?
21 »Mira cómo yacen en las calles,
jóvenes y viejos,
niños y niñas,
muertos por la espada del enemigo.
Los mataste en tu enojo,
los masacraste sin misericordia.
22 »Convocaste a los terrores para que vinieran de todas partes,
como si los invitaras a un día de fiesta.
En el día del enojo del Señor
no escapó ni sobrevivió nadie.
El enemigo mató a todos los niños
que llevé en mis brazos y crié».
Esta Biblia es una edición de la Santa Biblia, Nueva Traducción Viviente. La Santa Biblia, Nueva Traducción Viviente, © Tyndale House Foundation, 2010. Todos los derechos reservados. Visite Tyndale en Internet: www.BibliaNTV.com y www.tyndaleespanol.com.

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